Following Capcom France head Antoine Seux’s uncertainty about the Wii as a profitable platform for the company going into 2010, it would appear that the Capcom mothership would like to carefully rephrase the sentiment. As such, HQ has issued a statement reconfirming the Japanese publisher’s “commitment as a multiplatform developer and publisher of interactive software.”
There’s no word on just how many lashes Mr. Seux is to receive.
Capcom backpedals from unfavorable Wii comments originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After recently giving its San Diego and Newcastle studios the required 60 day warning that their offices are to be closed, Midway announced yesterday that its corporate headquarters in Chicago is shutting down. According to a recent US Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Midway, the closing effects all 60 employees currently working at the offices — including CEO Matt Booty — representing “approximately 20% of the company’s global workforce.”
Interestingly, though Warner Bros. purchased a $33 million-sized chunk of the company last month, the report states that WB paid out more to the tune of $49 million “including the assumption of certain liabilities” — presumably some of the debt owed to creditor? A Midway rep told the Chicago Tribune that, while the executive offices have been closed and everyone let go, all 100 employees at the company’s Chicago development studio have been offered jobs by WB. Oh, right, we almost forgot — yes, the Midway San Diego offices (and its TNA wrestling license) are still up for sale — at least for another 45 days or so.
Source 1 – Kotaku
Source 2 – Chicago Tribune
Source 3 – US Securities and Exchange Commission
Midway execs get the boot, entire Chicago dev team acquired by WB originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The departure of Sega of America president and COO Simon Jeffery to the much happier-looking ngmoco:) has brought more changes to Sega’s corporate Tower of Power. The company announced today that Naoya Tsurumi, former CEO of Sega of America, will now “assume worldwide responsibility for SEGA’s Consumer Business, incorporating SEGA of Japan, SEGA of America and SEGA of Europe.”
“This unified organization will better position SEGA for growth across these key markets,” Tsurumi said in the press release announcing the promotion. It should be interesting to see how Tsurumi’s new position will affect Sega’s worldwide strategy, though we don’t expect any change will be drastic enough for the company to just tell us what’s going on with the Aliens games.
(Alternate joke for old-school Sega fans: we don’t expect any change will be drastic enough for the company to bring Alex Kidd back to mascot duty.)
Sega’s Naoya Tsurumi promoted to lofty new position originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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