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Jeff Bell Departs Microsoft, Shane Kim Gets Promotion
Microsoft Game Studio's head Shane Kim is getting bumped up to corporate vice president of Strategy and Business Development, a new position in Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, and Jeff Bell is leaving the company, Microsoft announced today.
Kim, who headed up the studio for four years, will be replaced by Phil Spencer, who formerly headed up the Microsoft Game Studios in Europe.
“We’re strategically positioning the leadership team to drive every aspect of the Xbox business to new heights,” said Don Mattrick, senior vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business. “I firmly believe that Microsoft will lead the next great innovations in games and entertainment. Today’s organizational announcements align us to accelerate this expansive growth.”
Microsoft has not yet found a replacement for Bell who is said to be leaving to "pursue other opportunities outside of Microsoft."
“The time is right for me to pursue my life’s passion of consumer brand marketing and the creative and services that drive it.” Bell said “Coming from automotive, and now technology and entertainment, I am excited to expand to new industries and categories.”
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Microsoft Still Working on Live Anywhere
During his talk at the Electronic Gaming Summit today, Microsoft's Jeff Bell briefly, very briefly, touched on the long-lost, quickly becoming mythical Live Anywhere pipedream that Microsoft first mentioned at E3 in 2006.
The concept, captured in blurry pics later that year, would allow gamers to access Live via a cellphone so they could check friend status, Achievements, all the data of Live, on the go.
Bell said not to give up hope. "Live anywhere is not abandoned, it's just not easy to do."
And then he never mentioned it again.
12:00 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Xbox 360 Looking for the Twister of the 21st Century
Microsoft hasn't forgotten that despite their successes they are still the "challenger brand" in the video game industry, Jeff Bell, Microsoft's corporate vice president of global marketing for Interactive Entertainment Business, told members of the Electronic Gaming Summit today.
After walking the audience through his personal gaming history, which started with Pong in his early teens, Bell talked about gaming generations and how Microsoft works to extend their reach in the industry, reminding the audience that the Xbox is still the new guy in the console wars.
"We are the challenger brand in this category, this is our seventh year really," he said. "We're coming into our eighth holiday, from that stand point we are still the newbie." More »
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Microsoft: Xbox 360 Can Be The New PS2
Sure the DS sells like hotcakes and the Wii is doing pretty well, too. But the real contender to which all others will be measured in this generation of console hardware is the PS2, king of the last gen. And Microsoft VP Jeff Bell thinks that the Xbox 360 can fill the shoes of the PS2, as he told 1UP:
We very much are positioning ourselves to be the choice console of this generation, much like the PS2 was in the last generation.
More »10:40 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Mark Wilson
17,467 views, 335 commentsLatest by Policroma: This guy seems to imply that the Wii is a gateway drug of sorts for new gamers. Gotta say that more »
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Microsoft Says Xbox Live Outage Due To Server Strain
The weeks long connection troubles many Xbox Live users have experienced since the holidays was due, according to Microsoft, to heavy Xbox Live server load brought on by a record number of users attempting to access the service. Xbox group marketing manager Albert Penello told us that "It's wasn't a malicious thing." He explained "We had the biggest concurrent day we've ever had on Live. We had more people than ever signing up on Live, it was 9 million, then 10 million, and it literally was that a lot more people were trying to get on, sign up and play than we had expected over Christmas." More »7:04 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Michael McWhertor
18,752 views, 204 commentsLatest by King Gunz: I amstill exepriencing issues on line. Yesterday - All Afternoon my console was saying i was connected but the menu more »
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Yup, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy Still Not on Xbox 360
Just because Microsoft doesn't have the home field advantage doesn't mean the company is going to sit on the TGS sidelines. Yes, the company will be announcing something. In an interview with Canada.com, lippy Microsoft exec Jeff Bell hints at what Microsoft will be showing at the Tokyo Games Show, namely Alan Wake, Fable 2 and Halo Wars. As well it should be! Those are all first party games, though. What about third part stuff? Bell stirs the hornet's nest:
Lets be honest. There's only two major franchises that are talked about not appearing on our platform: Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid.
So why not buy them? You're Microsoft, you're rich.
That's the thing. Hopefully we're at the tipping point right now, where people will work with you and say, "We're going to make money the old fashioned way". Clearly there is a content and development necessity when you're the new kid. We're seeing that change over now when we have the install base and we will continue on our commitment to growth.
Giant Jeff Bell Face didn't really answer the question.
Jeff Bell Interview [Canada.com via Eurogamer]10:00 PM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
8,418 views, 129 commentsLatest by Papa Midnight: Finally, now can we get these fanboys to stop their ludicrous trolling which plagues the internet with false information leading more »
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