{"id":36528,"date":"2012-04-23T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36528"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T08:38:52","slug":"peter-molyneuxs-new-studio-swamped-with-over-1000-job-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36528-peter-molyneuxs-new-studio-swamped-with-over-1000-job-applications","title":{"rendered":"Peter Molyneux’s new studio swamped with over 1000 job applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make fun of him sometimes, but damn it, I love<\/em> Peter Molyneux<\/a> – and so do loads of other people, it turns out. Not just the ones in my head, either.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve had just over 1,000 people apply for jobs at 22 Cans,” the ‘Neux gushed in an interview with Giant Bomb. “That\u2019s pretty damn exciting. I\u2019m working 16 hours-a-day just answering those e-mails. I\u2019ve said to myself ‘Look, I\u2019ve put this thing out there. I\u2019ve got to answer all these e-mails, I\u2019ve also got to look at all the Molyjam entries, and I\u2019ve got to [use] Twitter.’ That\u2019s taking up a huge amount of time. It\u2019s a fantasticly, amazingly, incredibly exciting, though.”<\/p>\n

It’s also a big change from his old job at Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I realised that 75% of my day was just doing nothing, basically,” he said. “It was just doing meetings, and now, doing everything from answering e-mails to doing press stuff, to going and talking at universities and designing the games, it just feels fantastic to be that hands-on, it really does.”<\/p>\n

The studio hasn’t yet announced its first project, but whatever it is, it’s apparently going to “change the world”. I can’t wait to hear about all the features that will get binned before the game launches.<\/p>\n

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