Execs depart EVE Online developer CCP as San Francisco office closes

MCV Staff 28th August 2014 Business News

CCP, the maker of expansive MMO space sim EVE Online, has announced plans to close its San Francisco office, with two executives also set to depart from the firm.

In the company’s latest financial report (via Eurogamer), it was revealed that chief marketing officer David Reid and chief financial officer Joe Gallo will be moving onto pastures new.

The closure of the San Fransisco-based office is part of an effort to combine and simplify” the games firm, said CCP head Hilmar Veigar Ptursson.

Ptursson also took the time to briefly praise Reid and Gallo, saying: "Joe Gallo and David Reid [did] a great job for CCP and I wish them all the best for the future.”

The announcement follows the departure of several other CCP execs working on EVE Online, including executive producer Jon Lander, lead designer Kristoffer Touborg, director of security Sean Conover and lead community manager Pete McKay.

Tags

About MCV Staff

Check Also

Core Keeper key art 1 [Industry news] Core Keeper’s ancient Core becomes a one of a kind gaming PC, to be won for charity

[Industry news] Core Keeper’s ancient Core becomes a one of a kind gaming PC, to be won for charity

More than 4 million people have played Core Keeper, and every one of them started the same way, waking in a dark cavern beside an ancient Core that has lain dormant for aeons. Pugstorm and Fireshine Games, the game's developer and publisher, have now worked with Scan to build that Core into a real gaming PC. It is one of a kind, and it is the prize in the Global Games Draw, a new prize draw for Into Games, a UK charity that helps young people from working class backgrounds into careers in games. Every entry raises money for that work.

© Copyright 2026, MCV. BizMedia