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Industry veteran Clint Hocking is no longer working at Valve, according to the man’s LinkedIn page. Game Informer points to the former Splinter Cell and Far Cry 2 director’s recently updated profile, which reveals he has departed from his designer post at the firm. Hocking had previously worked for Ubisoft …
Read More »PopCap co-founders depart studio
PopCap has confirmed the impending exits of CEO Dave Roberts and chief game designer Jason Kapalka. The developer confirmed that two-thirds of the studio’s founding trio are stepping down from their posts. The last remaining co-founder, John Vechey, will take over as the studio’s newly appointed general manager. "We wish …
Read More »Three more top execs leave Zynga
Three top level executives have made abrupt departures” from Zynga, according to an internal memo from CEO Don Mattrick. All Things D originally reported that chief operations officer David Ko, chief technology officer Cadir Lee and chief people officer Colleen McCreary would be leaving the social and mobile game company …
Read More »Square Enix president departs for Amazon
Square Enix CEO and president Mike Fischer has left Square Enix of America for a job with Amazon. Polygon reports Fischer quit the company earlier this month, and is now the vice president of digital music and video for Amazon in Japan. Fischer worked at Namco, Sega and Microsoft before …
Read More »Adam Orth exits Microsoft following always-on Twitter fiasco
Microsoft creative director Adam Orth, made infamous for his recent outburst on Twitter regarding always-connected consoles, has left the company. Polygon reports two sources have confirmed the departure, with Microsoft adding that it does not comment on private personnel matters.” Orth ignited a bit of a firestorm last week when …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite VP of development Rod Fergusson departs Irrational
Former Gears of War producer and current Bioshock Infintie VP of development Rod Fergusson has announced his exit from Irrational Games just eight months after being hired on. Fergusson explained to Polygon that his joining the Bioshock Infinite team was based on good timing, as the studio was looking for …
Read More »Newell offers assurances as 25 – including Jason Holtman – leave Valve
Half-Life developer and Steam owner Valve last night laid off around 25 staff, chief amongst them being director of business development Jason Holtman. Holtman has been at Valve since 2005 and was crucial to the company’s developer relations – clearly a job he had done well judging by the incredible, …
Read More »Zynga chief creative officer Verdu exits to start new mobile studio
Zynga’s chief creative officer Mike Verdu is on the way out of the social games company to start his own mobile studio. Verdu spoke with AllThingsD regarding his departure, and specifically how he’s not looking to add to the noise level despite the timing. "I personally don’t want to add …
Read More »EA’s BioWare and Easy Studios lose key execs
EA has been rocked by two further executive departures. Firstly, BioWare’s ambitious MMO Star wars: The Knights of the Old Republic, has lost its executive producer Rick Vogel, Gamasutra reports. Vogel’s departure comes on the back of a recent dip in subscriber numbers for the title and talk of a …
Read More »GAME confirms senior departures
Three members of UK retailer GAME’s senior management team have departed the company, MCV can reveal. Group Online and Digital Operations managing director Alex Croft, HR manager Malcolm Knight and Scandinavia, Czech Republic and emerging markets regional MD Adolf Kristjansson have reached agreement with the board that it is the …
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