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Zynga's new CEO tried to buy the social game company while at Microsoft
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Jen Topping named business manager at Kinect Sesame Street studio
Read More »Mattrick "lives like a Saudi prince and takes a private jet to work"
Man of the moment Don Mattrick has been described as a division head who lives like a Saudi prince”. A profile of the exec on Fast Company claims that he takes a private jet to work, name-drops celebrity friends and lives in the largest house in British Colombia valued at …
Read More »Price: Xbox One ditching restrictive dev policies
Studios will be closer to consumers and able to make regular updates, says Insomniac head
Read More »UPDATED: Xbox One headset rumours dismissed
UPDATE 2:The source, who has requested to remain anonymous, has now retracted their statement to a simple "no comment". So we’re none the wiser, if we’re being honest. Lots of other sites have had it suggested to them that the headset rumour isn’t true, however. UPDATE 1:It has been confirmed …
Read More »Bushnell: Microsoft "screwed up" Xbox One launch, thinks trade-ins are good for industry
One of the founding members of the games industry has blasted Microsoft for its handling of the Xbox One reveal. They totally screwed it up,” Atari founder Nolan Bushnell told VG247. When I heard some of the announcements and the analysis of it, I’m shaking my head and saying, ‘What …
Read More »Sunset Overdrive will use Xbox One Cloud but should be playable offline
Insomniac hopes for Xbox One title Sunset Overdrive to be playable offline despite plans to utilise Microsoft’s cloud computing network. "Our intent is that you will be able to play the single-player without an online connection," Insomniac president and CEO Ted Price told GameInformer. "The game will be updated with …
Read More »Mattrick could pocket $50m from Zynga switch
Former Xbox boss Don Mattrick could earn in the region of $50m from new employer Zynga. Reuters reports that the exec will in his first year receive a base salary of $1m as well as a joining on cash bonus of $5m and a $2m 2012 bonus – the latter …
Read More »Xbox One Reputation system will match trolls with trolls
Microsoft realises it can’t stop people being dicks. But it can protect everyone else from their insidious influence. That’s the idea behind Xbox One’s Reputation system, which will monitor a player’s behaviour and the responses they evoke in others over time to form a Reputation profile. As this develops, trolls …
Read More »Mattrick to earn $20m in first year
Zynga CEO's mostly stock-based compensation totals $92 million over five years
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