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Joystiq interviews Greg Canessa of XBLA
Today, I sat down with Greg Canessa, the group manager for Xbox Live Arcade, and we spoke about the service as a whole and what was in store for this successful extension of the Xbox 360. We touched on everything from what effect Nintendo's Virtual ...
XBLA chief trash talks Sony and Nintendo's offerings
Greg Canessa, the Xbox Live Arcade group manager, has plenty to be proud of
in the Arcade service. We're awfully fond of Geometry Wars, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting will be
huge, and we expect plenty more in the coming
months and years. ...
GDC: A quick chat with XBLA's Greg Canessa
I
met Xbox Live Arcade's Greg Canessa outside a casual gaming session this afternoon. We didn't talk long, but did manage
to hit some of the larger points. Competition from Sony? They don't know what Sony has planned, so they don't know what
to ...
Interview: Blizzard's Greg Canessa on Battle.Net
In recent years, Greg Canessa has bounced from Xbox Live to PopCap Games and now onto Blizzard, where he's heading up the Battle.Net team. Version 2.0 of the service is an ambitious undertaking, and we spoke with Greg during BlizzCon about its ...
Greg Canessa leaves PopCap for Blizzard, working on online project
Just two short years after Greg Canessa left his position as group manager of Xbox Live to try his hand on more casual fare at PopCap, he is once again jumping ship -- -- this time to Blizzard Entertainment, masters and commanders of online ...
Xbox Live Arcade GM quits, joins PopCap
Soon to be former Xbox Live Arcade general manager, Greg Canessa joins casual game maker PopCap as newly minted vice president of video game platforms. Canessa's tenure at PopCap officially begins next week. No longer confined to Xbox 360, Canessa ...
Ex-PopCapper Canessa heading up new Battle.net
Well folks, it took approximately 12 hours to squash the rampant rumors and speculation surrounding Greg Canessa. Bob Colayco of Blizzard Entertainment, Canessa's new employer, informed us today that the man will be taking the reins of Battle.net ...
PopCap denies Peggle DS 'rumor'
Not so fast peg-pounding pellet paramours! PopCap has promptly pulled the plug on PocketGamer's proof of Peggle for DS. Pop! Poof! Phizzle ... ya dig? PopCap VP of Video Game Platforms Greg Canessa issued a brief statement via press release today, ...
Peggle priced, detailed for XBLA
The second quarter has come and gone, and while our XBLA download queues have be left decidedly Peggle-free, PopCap's Greg Canessa remains adamant that the addictive puzzler is still on its way. In a recent interview, the PopCap exec blamed the ...
Petition for TMNT on XBL Arcade
An online petition has been launched to encourage Konami to publish a version of its popular Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles arcade franchise, specifically, 1991's TMNT IV: Turtles In
Time. Konami has already partnered with Microsoft to bring ...
Major Xbox 360 announcement at BlizzCon?
UPDATE: No 360 announcements
after all? GameSpot says it's all about Vista
OS… [Thanks to everyone that sent this in]
Gaming Steve has raised some interesting questions about Microsoft's involvement in BlizzCon this Friday. What ...
Geometry Wars trial downloaded over 200K times
Greg Canessa, the group manager in charge of Live Arcade, said the trial of Geometry Wars
has been downloaded over 200K times and sold nearly 45K copies adding, "Geometry Wars has been our Halo." The article on MTV
gets some industry ...
Big publishers embrace Xbox Live Arcade, promise original titles
Larry Hryb, Xbox
Live Director of Programming, interviewed Greg Canessa, the general manager of Xbox Live Arcade for his regular
podcast. The two spent a good deal of time discussing Xbox Live Arcade, during which Canessa said:
"As the ...
XBLA Peggle gets multiplayer, 'online modes and features'
And if you don't think we're taking all the credit, we can settle this over a one-on-one multiplayer round of Peggle when it hits XBLA in Q2 this year. You see, when we called Peggle one of the best games of 2007 we closed by suggesting, "Maybe ...
PopCap's Bejeweled free on iPhone
PopCap Games released a free web-based version of Bejeweled for Apple's iPhone, available via the Safari browser. Take note, this is not a downloadable game, thanks to Apple's insistence on web-based third party apps, so the game actually plays ...
