Sony announces new studio heads for Europe, America
Sony continues to shuffle the upper-level management of their international studios. Gamasutra reports that the company has appointed Michael Denny (pictured) as the new senior vice president of Sony Worldwide Studios Europe, moving him from his former position as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe VP.Sony has also promoted Scott Rohde, former Sony San Diego Studios senior director, to the position of vice president of Worldwide Studios America. Both Rohde and Denny will manage the internal studios for their regions.
These promotions follow last month's appointment of Shuhei Yoshida as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide, replacing Phil Harrison. GamesIndustry.biz has posted the first part of an interview with Yoshida, detailing the difficult task of filling Phil's shoes.
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NATO_Duke @ Jun 16th 2008 4:27PM
Damn. I was so waiting for the call on this. Scott Rohde is now my nemesis!!
Jhongerkong @ Jun 16th 2008 4:32PM
That guy has a real square head
ComradeTrotskii @ Jun 16th 2008 5:15PM
Apparently Michael Denny has worked (doing what I don't exactly know) on the following games:
AFL Premiership 2007 (2007), SCEE
Buzz!: The Hollywood Quiz (2007), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Buzz!: The Mega Quiz (2007), SCEE
Gaelic Games: Football 2 (2007), SCEE
Gaelic Games: Hurling (2007), SCEE
AFL Premiership 2006 (2006), SCEE
B-Boy (2006), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Buzz!: The BIG Quiz (2006), SCEE
Killzone: Liberation (2006), Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
Lemmings (2006), SCEE
MotorStorm (2006), Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated
AFL Premiership 2005 (2005), SCEE
Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer (2005), SCEE
Buzz!: The Music Quiz (2005), SCEE
F1 Grand Prix (2005), SCEE
Go! Sudoku (2005), SCEE
Pursuit Force (2005), SCEE
WRC (2005), SCEE
Athens 2004 (2004), SCEE
Destruction Derby Arenas (2004), SCEE
DJ: Decks & FX House Edition (2004), SCEE
Jackie Chan Adventures (2004), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Killzone (2004), SCEA
Dog's Life (2003), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Alfred Chicken (2002), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (2002), SCEA
Firebugs (2002), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
WRC World Rally Championship (2001), SCEE
He deserves his promotion and can hopefully add to this list of quality titles.
ComradeTrotskii @ Jun 16th 2008 5:24PM
If you add the metacritic scores of those games together you get 93.
kataztrophy @ Jun 16th 2008 5:17PM
One of his eyes is placed higher than the other.