Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[EA's Digital EVP and Playfish co-founder departs]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/28/eas-digital-evp-and-playfish-co-founder-departs/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/28/eas-digital-evp-and-playfish-co-founder-departs/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/28/eas-digital-evp-and-playfish-co-founder-departs/#comments EA's Digital EVP and Playfish cofounder departsKristian Segerstrale has left Electronic Arts, where he served as the head of the EA Digital team and was responsible for overseeing most of EA's games-as-services, including Sim City Social. Segerstrale had joined the company as a co-founder of Playfish, which EA picked up about four years ago for $300 million. The division has been leaking executives, with two of Playfish's other co-founders leaving last year.

With Segerstrale's departure, EA Digital will be transferred under the direction of good old Peter Moore, who will now oversee all of EA's revenue groups, including Global Publishing, Global Media Solutions, Worldwide Customer Experience, and Mobile and Social Publishing. That's a lot of responsibility already, but you know Peter - he can always do Moore.

JoystiqEA's Digital EVP and Playfish co-founder departs originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>eaea-digitalexecutiveexecutive-vpKristian-Segerstralepcpeter-mooreplayfishrevenuesocialThu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST<![CDATA[GameStop: Console shortages likely not fixed until summer]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/19/gamestop-console-shortages-likely-not-fixed-until-summer/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/19/gamestop-console-shortages-likely-not-fixed-until-summer/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/19/gamestop-console-shortages-likely-not-fixed-until-summer/#comments On the same conference call earlier this week in which it talked about its new rewards program, GameStop Executive VP of Merchandising, Tony Bartel, said that stores currently experiencing Wii and PlayStation 3 shortages probably won't find relief very soon. While the retailer is always bugging Sony and Nintendo for more units, Bartel said that GameStop "could sell a lot more hardware than what we have on both the PS3 and Wii platform," and that situation probably won't change until early summer of this year.

He did say that the Wii is due for a re-supply first, but he believes that both Nintendo and Sony are "still scrambling to catch up from the surge" of the last holiday season. But a shortage like this isn't unprecedented -- as we get closer to summer, we'll probably see new inventory appearing on shelves, ready to go home to a caring gamer.

JoystiqGameStop: Console shortages likely not fixed until summer originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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