NBA Jam creator joins EA

MCV Staff 8th January 2010 Business News

Suggestions that EA Sports is about to revive the NBA Jam series intensified today as the publishing enterprise announced it had appointed Mark Turmell as a senior creative director.

Experienced developer Turmell was central to the creation of numerous breakthrough games such as Smash TV, NFL Blitz and – of course – NBA Jam.

His prodigious experience in the development business, which spans over twenty years, will now be the driving force at Florida-based EA Tiburon, working inside the studio’s Central Gameplay Group.

The full story is over on Develop.

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