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NYT Digital Head Joins EA Board of Directors
Game giant Electronic Arts announced Friday that Denise F. Warren, head of digital products and services at the New York Times, will join its board of directors. Warren replaces outgoing board member Greg Maffei, who sat as a director for a decade (his departure, according to EA, is due to his commitments with Liberty Media, where he is CEO). Before taking over digital products, Warren was the NYT media group’s general manager and chief advertising officer.
EA Reboot Cost 900 Jobs
Reason for leaving last job: “Hard but essential changes.”
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PopCap’s Bejeweled Executive Producer Leaves for Indie-Focused Studio
Add one more name to that list of ex-EA folks now at mobile indie game publisher Tilting Point: Giordano “Gio” Contestabile, who until recently supervised the Bejeweled franchise at EA subsidiary PopCap Games. Contestabile joined PopCap in 2007, right before free-to-play games went wild on mobile. Before producing the hit puzzle series Bejeweled, he managed the business end of PopCap’s mobile games, including Plants vs. Zombies. As Tilting Point’s new VP of product management and revenue, Contestabile joins fellow EA vets Tom Frisina, Dan Sherman, Steve Coallier and Jim Hsu.Voices
EA CEO John Riccitiello Is Resigning: Here’s His Farewell Letter
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said today he is stepping down at the end of the month, ending a difficult six-year reign that has seen the company’s stock fall more than 60 percent in that time.Exclusive: EA Partners Founder’s New Company Will Invest $40 Million in Mobile Indie Games
Mobile (games), mobile (games), mobile (games)!
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Maxis Promises to Fix SimCity Server Snafu, With Free Games “For Your Trouble”
In a post on EA’s blog Friday night, Maxis SVP and GM Lucy Bradshaw all but apologized for the server issues that have plagued the company’s SimCity reboot since it launched earlier this week. “A lot more people logged on than we expected,” Bradshaw wrote. “That was dumb, but we are committed to fixing it.” She pledged that the company would both fix lingering tech problems this weekend and offer a free PC game download to affected players later this month. Server downtime and changes between the old SimCity franchise and the reboot have led to near-universally negative reviews of the game on Amazon.Are Gamers Waiting for the New Consoles, or Have They Moved On?
Will it ever again be the right time to launch a videogame console?
EA and Zynga Quietly Resolve Copyright Dispute Out of Court
Terms of the settlement are confidential, so it’s unclear exactly how the two companies resolved their differences.
ATD Q&A: Zynga’s President of Games Steve Chiang
Here are some highlights from a recent interview with Steve Chiang, Zynga’s new president of games.
Getting Back Into the Game: Can This Trio — Chiang, Ko and Cottle — Revive Zynga?
Meet the three executives that Zynga’s Mark Pincus is hoping can turn the company around.