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Games for Windows Boss Axed

[Jan 26, 2009, 2:26 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

VentureBeat notes that one of last week's layoff's at Microsoft was Chris Early, who had headed up the Games for Windows program. Early has not been reached yet for comment, but his email now returns a bounce message saying his time at Microsoft "has come to a close." Games for Windows launched almost two years ago, but it hasn't quite taken the gaming world by storm, and with belts tightening at Microsoft, author of the VentureBeat article Dean Takahashi questions how long they will be willing to continue investing heavily in this program. Thanks Spong.

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Re: Games for Windows Boss Axed

Jan 26, 2009, 13:49

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Ed Fries is doing a bunch of stuff now. He runs that FigurePrints company that does the action figures of people WoW characters and he's on the board of Airtight Games, the company that's making Dark Void for Capcom. He does 2 or 3 other things too I remember him saying on a podcast a while back. He's definitely keeping busy.




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Comment [quote="Parallax Abstraction"Jan 26, 2009, 13:49]Ed Fries is doing a bunch of stuff now. He runs that FigurePrints company that does the action figures of people WoW characters and he's on the board of Airtight Games, the company that's making Dark Void for Capcom. He does 2 or 3 other things too I remember him saying on a podcast a while back. He's definitely keeping busy. [/quote]

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