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Reggie Fils-Aime, the long-time president of Nintendo America, announced earlier today that he is retiring this April. The face of Nintendo in the western market at game events throughout the years, he will certainly be missed. It is time for someone to step up and fill his presidential shoes, and Bowser has been elected to the seat. We are talking about Doug Bowser, who is currently the Vice President of Sales in Nintendo America. The coincidence with Mario’s arch-nemesis, King Bowser, is now the talk of the town. Will Bowser set the company on fire and lead it to a new era? Also, will the Nintendo Switch Mini debut soon? … [Read more...] about – America subsidiary taken over by Bowser as new president

Looks like there’s a changing of the guard over at Activision Blizzard: The company just announced that World of Warcraft Executive Producer J. Allen Brack is taking over from Mike Morhaime as president of Blizzard. Morhaime, shown above, will remain with the company as a “strategic advisor.” There’s a bit more to the leadership shift too, as Allen Adham and Ray Gresko have been appointed to the company’s “executive leadership team.” Here’s the whole press release, complete with quotes from Actiblizz CEO Bobby Kotick. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the appointment of Blizzard veteran and World of Warcraft® Executive Producer J. Allen Brack as the new president of Blizzard Entertainment succeeding Mike Morhaime, who will remain a strategic advisor to the company. The company also announced the appointments of Chief Development Officer Ray Gresko and Blizzard Founder Allen Adham to Blizzard’s executive … [Read more...] about Mike Morhaime is stepping down as Blizzard president as J Allen Brack takes the wheel

Looks like there’s a changing of the guard over at Activision Blizzard: The company just announced that World of Warcraft Executive Producer J. Allen Brack is taking over from Mike Morhaime as president of Blizzard. Morhaime will remain with the company as a “strategic advisor.” There’s a bit more to the leadership shift too, as Allen Adham and Ray Gresko have been appointed to the company’s “executive leadership team.” Here’s the whole press release, complete with quotes from Actiblizz CEO Bobby Kotick. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the appointment of Blizzard veteran and World of Warcraft® Executive Producer J. Allen Brack as the new president of Blizzard Entertainment succeeding Mike Morhaime, who will remain a strategic advisor to the company. The company also announced the appointments of Chief Development Officer Ray Gresko and Blizzard Founder Allen Adham to Blizzard’s executive leadership … [Read more...] about Mike Morhaime steps down as Blizzard president, J Allen Brack takes over

Mad Otter Games’ fully cross-platform MMORPG, Villagers & Heroes has announced an expansion, coming on May 2018. Villagers & Heroes: Wellspring drops on May 14th, 2018 and follows closely behind the Starfall expansion, which brought huge overhauls and updates to the game. Wellspring’s focus is on the player housing/community experience, which are known as villages. Wellspring will bring new features for village life, such as village politics, where players can run for mayor, and be appointed to local government to help run the village. “Villages are at the heart of our game – where players can come together, build a community, construct their own house, and engage in community projects together,” Said Damon Slye, president of Mad Otter Games. Communities will be able to embark on village projects such as creating a Sugar Mill or Training grounds to practice combat. These projects will require players to work together, but once complete, they will … [Read more...] about Villagers & Heroes Announce New Expansion: Wellspring

Play SMITE for freeEvery year brings a lot of patches for SMITE. A new official post on the game’s subreddit penned by Hi-Rez President Stewart Chisam puts the game at patching roughly 48 weeks in a year, which is pretty substantial. But it doesn’t matter all that much if the patches aren’t working right, and the post is essentially admitting that that has been the case more often than not lately; patches have beenreleased too early and without enough testing, making all of that speed mean less than nothing. “Our current quality is not at all where it should be, and we strongly believe our quality can and should be better,” Chisam says. “We’ve been saying that for a while, and things have gotten better — but not good enough. So I think bigger changes are needed. We can’t keep doing things the same way and expecting different results.” So the team is working on changing that, starting with a beefed up internal Q&A team. … [Read more...] about Hi-Rez President Stewart Chisam vows to improve SMITE’s patch quality