Posted on Wednesday 8-Feb-2012 12:31 PM

Ex-Blizzard exec promoted to head of Disney Games

Roper promoted as Bungie co-founder leaves

By Tamoor Hussain for computerandvideogames.com

Bill Roper, former vice president of Blizzard North, has climbed up a rung at Disney and been promoted to head of games.

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Roper replaces Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian, who's exits Disney Interactive just a year after joining.

Seropian joined the Disney Interactive family three years ago as part of the animated film giant's acquisition of Stubbs the Zombie dev Wideload. He became Disney's SVP and GM of core games at the start of last year.

Disney has been slowly moving away from developing big budget titles. Last year it shut down Brighton-based Split/Second developer, Black Rock Studios.

It also cut around 20 members of staff from Utah-based Avalanche Software, which developed the decent Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 tie-ins.

In total Disney Interactive Studios is believed to have cut over seven percent of the 4,000 employees it started the year with.

[ Source: Gamasutra ]

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Tamoor Hussain
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Tamoor plays anything and everything but really likes fighting games. On evenings and weekends he might be Batman. He speaks about himself in the third-person.Read more

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    Sangor on 9 Feb '12 said:

    At least theres not a lot for Billy to screw up at Disney.