Electronic Arts has hired the former general manager of Call of Duty and Destiny from Activision to become the GM of Battlefield going forward.Byron Beede is now the SVP and GM of Battlefield, and in that role he’ll help guide the Battlefield team into the future. At Activision, he helped launch a handful of live…
In recent years one popular YouTube trend has been creating deepfake video clips of popular movies. Much of the time these have…
Nintendo’s board of directors is getting another member, as the Mario company has announced the nomination of Chris Meledandri–the founder and CEO of animation movie studio Illumination–as an outside director to Nintendo.It’s expected that Meledandri will be voted in during the 81st Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in June. Nintendo said that Meledandri “has extensive…
GameStop is in the news again, as the video game retailer has announced the hiring of a former Amazon executive to become the “Chief Growth Officer” for the store. Elliott Wilke, who was most recently the director of Amazon Fresh Stores, is coming to GameStop with a start-date of April 5, 2021. Wilke worked at…
Facebook is hiring an additional 3,000 people to help monitor videos posted on the social media giant’s Facebook Live feature. CNET editor…
