– Bullfrog and Lionhead Studios co-founder Peter Molyneux has announced that he will leave Lionhead Studios once FABLE: THE JOURNEY is complete for a new game company called 22 Cans, which was recently founded by former Lionhead CTO Tim Rance.
– Phil Harrison has left his post as head of Sony Worldwide Studios to join Microsoft as the corporate vice president of its ‘Interactive Entertainment Business’ in order to oversee its European game development efforts.
– Arjan Brussee, co-founder of KILLZONE developer Guerilla Games, has left the company to join DEAD SPACE developer EA subsidiary Visceral Games.
– EA Tiburon staffers Jerry Phaneuf (former technical art director) andVolga Aksoy (former lead software engineer) have started a two-man development studio aimed at the high-end PC gaming market called PixelFoundry. PixelFoundry’s first game is a space-based real-time strategy game titled BLACKSPACE.
Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has started a core-focused mobile studio called Industrial Toys, along with Brent Pease (Bungie, DreamWorks Animation) and Tim Harris (Seven Lights).
– East Sleep Play cofounder David Jaffe has left the company to found a new developer in San Diego.
– Innovative Leisure is a new L.A.-based video game company led by former Xbox man Seamus Blackley, which combines the talents of 11 Atari development superstars who will make games for the Ipad under publisher THQ.
– Yasuhiro Wada, formerly a producer at Marvelous Entertainment and the creator of long-running farming game series HARVEST MOON, has formed a new company called Toybox in Japan.
GDC AWARDS HONOR MISSILE COMMAND CREATOR, FIRST AMENDMENT GAME LAWYERS, WARREN SPECTOR (Game Developer magazine March 2012 issue).
After one year of leading Disney Interactive’s games business, Bungie and Wideload cofounder Alex Seropian has left the company altogether.
This is the first concert performed by my late mother Anahid, a professional pianist in Jerusalem, on September 20th, 1941 (before she married my Dad). She is seated second from left.
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