Maike Loane

Maike Loane is a dedicated and passionate project manager with over 20 years of localisation and production experience in the video game industry. Her career started at Eidos Interactive in 2000 as part of the Quality Assurance Team ensuring translations in games were to the highest standard. Maike moved onto Take 2 Interactive to be part of the Operations department managing the translation of all game assets. From there Maike joined Rockstar's Development department and was involved at the early stages of game development and oversaw the translations and release of localized versions of games in multiple territories. After Rockstar Maike joined Disney Interactive's International Production department and helped set up the Localization QA department and to streamlnie Localization processes. Maike then made the move to Side UK a multi-award winning partner for leading games publishers and developers working with a multitude of clients to offer quality translation and voice over production services. Following that Maike joined the Localization Services Team at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe managing all aspects of the localization process for various products. After that Maike moved to the small educational development studio Filament Games in the role of Production Team Lead focsing on guiding development teams through the creation of meaningful and fun interactive activities through to launch. Maike then spent 3 years in Stockholm, Sweden working for EA DICE as a Development Director overseeing the development and release process for one of their live service titles. Maike is currently employed as a Producer at the Chicago based development company Iron Galaxy Studios.