Sony Europe Studio Boss Takes His Final Bow

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:30:00 MDT

Jamie MacDonald may not be a household name, but as boss of Sony's London Studio for eight years, he's overseen some of the most successful game series of all time. But no more.

MacDonald has announced his departure from the company, and his last day will be May 29. Over those eight years, London Studio have developed the SingStar series, the EyeToy camera and The Getaway. Hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

MacDonald was also boss of Sony's Cambridge studio, and one of Sony World Wide Studio's Vice Presidents. No reason was given for his leaving. He's the second high profile resignation from London Studio in recent months, after SingStar boss Paulina Bozek jumped ship for Atari last year.

Jamie MacDonald to leave Sony [Develop]

Sony Planning Slow Home Roll Out

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:40:55 MDT

The GamesIndustry.biz team sat down with Sony's Jamie Macdonald, VP of Worldwide Studios, to chat more about the status of Home for the PLAYSTATION 3 recently. And while MacDonald may think Home "might be one of a number of reasons why a consumers might buy a PlayStation 3 in the first place" he says that gamers (and non-gamers) shouldn't expect a traditional, full featured "big bang launch." He tells GI.biz that we should expect more production "beta" behavior, a la Web 2.0 apps like Gmail.

With Home still in closed beta testing, and newly rumored updates creeping out this week, it would appear that the social networking platform still needs some time to incubate. Looks like that other rumor of a mid-October release date is looking less likely. Surely we'll know more after TGS.

I'm checking my account for an invite, just in case.

No Place Like Home [GamesIndustry.biz]

Kotaku: jamie macdonald

Sony Europe Studio Boss Takes His Final Bow

Sony Planning Slow Home Roll Out