Rockstar Games has today confirmed the appointment of Gary Dale as Chief Operating Officer. Dale had previously been European Managing Director for Capcom since 2003.
The move is something of a homecoming for the new appointee - between 1994 and 1998, Dale had been President of the Interactive Software and Video Division of BMG Entertainment, coincidentally overseeing the launch of DMA Design's Grand Theft Auto before Take-Two bought BMG - and DMA Design became Rockstar North.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
...leaving the comfy confines of Capcom, for the turbulent seas of Rockstar. Brave....or stupid. :o
Hope he likes press conferences.
And hates Jack Thompson.
...hate Jack Thompson? ;)