State-of-the-art facilities to support the delivery of a new Esports Management degree have been unveiled at an event at Sheffield Hallam University

A week of events celebrating careers in the games industry and aiming to inspire the next generation of games professionals is underway in Sheffield.

Final-year computing students from Sheffield Hallam were successful in four categories at the annual Game Republic Student Showcase hosted by the University of Bradford.

Sheffield Hallam University has become one of the best equipped PlayStation teaching labs in Europe following investment in new PlayStation®5 development kits, offering students the chance to create videogames using the latest technology.

A Sheffield Hallam University researcher whose pioneering virtual reality (VR) technology in healthcare has helped amputees, burns victims and children with limb injuries to rehabilitate, has been recognised internationally by The Game Awards and included in its prestigious Future Class 2022.

Students from the computing department, working through Steel Minions, the computing department’s in-house game development studio, have helped launch “Zool Redimensioned” on PlayStation 4.