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[Eidos 'life president' Ian Livingstone to keynote NLGD's Festival of Games in June]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/02/eidos-life-president-ian-livingstone-to-keynote-nlgds-festiva/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/02/eidos-life-president-ian-livingstone-to-keynote-nlgds-festiva/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/02/eidos-life-president-ian-livingstone-to-keynote-nlgds-festiva/#comments Now that we've lost both Gygax and Arneson, we have to learn as much as we can from the still-living legends of gaming. One of these is Ian Livingstone -- he co-founded the great Games Workshop back in the day with John Peake and Steve Jackson. Currently, he's serving as the "life president" of Eidos, and lambasting the mass media for their portrayal of games (because if there's one thing a living legend should do, it's tell the kids these days that they're doing it wrong). And now De Nederlandse Gamedagen (NLGD, for short) has announced that Livingstone will be speaking at its annual Festival of Games in Holland this coming June. He'll be talking about his career and how he's integrated Eidos with Square Enix over the last year or so.

Just do us a favor if you do end up going to see the show: Start your Q&A question off with, "Mr. Livingstone, I presume?"

JoystiqEidos 'life president' Ian Livingstone to keynote NLGD's Festival of Games in June originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In his eyes, the mainstream media's overwhelming focus on violence in games -- and consistent ignoring of the economically beneficial side of the game industry -- certainly isn't helping to bring the development tax breaks he's been pushing in the UK for quite some time now. To help change minds, we suggest that Mr. Livingstone get in touch with the two people who have been most able to clearly convey our feelings on the violent video game debate -- Penn and Teller, of course!

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Longtime Eidos executive Ian Livingstone has been promoted to life president of ... wait, he's the what? Livingstone now holds the title of "life president," following Square Enix's takeover of the troubled British publisher. The executive will continue working in the creative process and "act as a spokesperson for the Eidos group," reports GI.biz.

Livingstone will also continue working with the British government to push forward tax credits and the "skills agenda."

We Googled "life president" because we figured this was some business term we'd just never heard of. Nope, it appears totally made up. The closest thing we could find was the term "President for Life," a title used by dictators -- which is not what's going on with Livingstone ... we think.

Just to make sure Wikipedia and Google hadn't missed anything in their combined infinite wisdom, we decided to contact several major academic business institutions. Harvard and Wharton have yet to return our phone calls; however, Stanford's media relations offered, "I can't think of any academic with serious scholarship wanting to weigh in on this."

JoystiqLivingstone becomes 'life president' of Eidos originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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