News Writer

Do you want to join one of the best gaming studios around?

An amazing opportunity has come up for a Community News Writer to join this amazing studio. The focus will be on writing a high volume of short-form stories that showcase the main titles brand experience by sourcing interesting stories from the community and beyond.

This content will supplement existing news stories around key content updates and live events. Working closely with the Senior Community Manager, Editorial Lead and Creator Engagement team, this role will index heavily on spotlighting and uplifting stories from around the community. You will also assist in the volume of content the studio publish across their franchise-based endeavours.

Key content types include interesting and memorable stories covering:

• Celebrate the games players coming together outside the game by covering news from our Affiliate Alliance partners, fan-sites and fan-run events. Also cover ongoing hot topics in the community and its discursive spaces (forums, Discord, Reddit).

• Showcase player and community creativity, sharing the best fan-art, fan fiction, music, memes and clips that are produced by our players.

• Provide coverage of the creator ecosystem around the game, sharing memorable stream highlights, clips or videos that showcase the game in the right way and inspire others to creatively use the game’s sandbox.

• Find inspiring and memorable player stories from within the community, covering everything from interesting and heart-warming encounters in the game, moments of skill and mastery or human interest stories that showcase the human side of the game.

• Partner with the Brand and Licensing team to cover relevant product launches and partnerships across our expanded universe including merchandise, publishing, music releases and so forth.

What we're looking for:

We are seeking an experienced and capable games journalist who has several years of experience sourcing, researching, and writing news stories around video games and their wider communities.

Responsibilities:

• Being able to source and research interesting news stories, both in partnership with other parts of the team (community, creator engagement, brand and licensing) and under your own initiative. This role requires a high-level of proactiveness, going out into the community to find stories that showcase everything that’s good about Sea of Thieves.

• Excellent writing skills, being able to bring stories to life in engaging ways

• Strong communication skills, able to engage across the team and studio, creators and members of the games community.

• Strong awareness and operational knowhow of key gaming-focused discursive channels, such as Discord and Reddit.

If you're interested please apply with your most up to date CV and Portfolio for immediate review