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Bodhesatva on 25 January 2008

http://www.gametap.com/home/read/article/3365

The biggest news in here:

Tsunoda takes the title general manager, reporting to Mattrick. His hire is part of a general reporting reorg being implemented by Mattrick, say sources, who also say Tsunoda is project lead on an upcoming Gears of War title.



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Mistershine on 25 January 2008

Sweet if true. But wouldn't the project lead be someone from epic?



goldenpp72 on 25 January 2008

The lead part just means the handling of MS involvement I think.



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rocketpig on 25 January 2008

Nice find, Bod. IIRC, Tsunoda was the man who brought Fight Night to prominence.




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TheBigFatJ on 25 January 2008
Mistershine said:
Sweet if true. But wouldn't the project lead be someone from epic?

 

The Gears of War part could simply be MS using the name and milking it for an entirely new team like they did with Viva Pinata.



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Darc Requiem on 25 January 2008

Wow I thought he was moving to EA Canada. That a big loss for EA. He really took a good franchise (Knockout Kings) and turned it into something excellent (Fight Night). Great pickup by MS.



Words Of Wisdom on 26 January 2008
Darc Requiem said:
Wow I thought he was moving to EA Canada. That a big loss for EA. He really took a good franchise (Knockout Kings) and turned it into something excellent (Fight Night). Great pickup by MS.

I don't know if recruiting developers out of EA is the right direction to take if you want quality products... but Microsoft doesn't usually make stupid business mistakes so we'll see.



rocketpig on 26 January 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
Darc Requiem said:
Wow I thought he was moving to EA Canada. That a big loss for EA. He really took a good franchise (Knockout Kings) and turned it into something excellent (Fight Night). Great pickup by MS.

I don't know if recruiting developers out of EA is the right direction to take if you want quality products... but Microsoft doesn't usually make stupid business mistakes so we'll see.

 

From what I know of Tsunoda, he's actually one of the few that people want from EA.




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Darc Requiem on 27 January 2008
rocketpig said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Darc Requiem said:
Wow I thought he was moving to EA Canada. That a big loss for EA. He really took a good franchise (Knockout Kings) and turned it into something excellent (Fight Night). Great pickup by MS.

I don't know if recruiting developers out of EA is the right direction to take if you want quality products... but Microsoft doesn't usually make stupid business mistakes so we'll see.

 

From what I know of Tsunoda, he's actually one of the few that people want from EA.


 Yeah when EA announced they were closing EA Chicago a lot of gamers, myself included, wondered where Tsunoda was going. I mean Fight Night, unlike Madden, is an excellent franchise despite the lack of competition from other developers.



Strategyking92 on 27 January 2008

hope microsoft can push his games to their full extent now.



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