Sony Online Entertainment VP Heads to Zynga as General Manager
Sony Online Entertainment confirmed to Gawker video games blog Kotaku this morning that John Blakely, SOE’s Vice President of Development, had left the company to join Zynga. Blakely is now General Manager at Zynga Austin, according to an update on his LinkedIn profile.
Blakely was at SOE for nearly a decade, championing development on massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest II and the recently-released DC Universe Online. Before that, he held management positions at other video game development studios and worked in an engineering co-op at NASA.
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