SCEA Finally Replaces Phil Harrison

So everyone remembers when Phil Harrison became the Dictator for Life President of Infogrames right? Did anyone notice that SCEA (Phil's former company) was without official direction for a while? Me too.

That problem has now been solved however, Shuhei Yoshida, the former Senior Vice President of Product Development at SCEA has gathered up his possessions and moved into Phil Harrison's previous title slot.

Congratulations Yoshida, you now are trying to fill the shoes of the super awesome Philinator.






-Undrallio

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Sony's NOT Closing Servers

After a post I made a few days ago about Sony closing off some servers it turns out that it was all false information. The original site that stated that SCEA was axing the servers never got SCEA's word on it apperently.

"SCEA has made no announcements about shutting down the servers, so I'm not sure where this website got that info," an SCEA representative told Shacknews today. "Based on some of the game names it sounds like it is from another territory."

"It does stand to reason that eventually servers for older titles may be shut down due to lack of participation in those titles as more and more gamers are switching to PS3 and newer content," the representative concluded.

So quick everyone, go play Amplitude online while you still can!





-Undrallio

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Phil Harrison Now Leader of Infogrames

In a follow-up to a bit of news a couple weeks ago that both ryizzel and I bombed on writing about, Phil Harrison, previously head of SCEA (Sony for all of you acronym-deficient readers out there) is now the President of Atari's Infogrames.

Yes sir, we totally forgot to update all of you about Phil Harrison leaving Sony after fifteen years of working solely for Sony. Sorry guys.

Now that he's got his fancy new job with a company that hasn't produced a game since 2005, I'm sure he's very very proud of his decision. Even if I think he's completely batty for making that transition.




-Undrallio

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