Tag archive: Seamus Blackley

Bachus most recently worked at Capital Entertainment Group, the videogame investment and production company he co-founded with another key member of the original Xbox team, Seamus Blackley, but which closed its operations late last year. He becomes the first key games industry figure to join Infinium, whose flagship product, the Phantom console, has often been dismissed as non-existent “vapourware” or even a hoax by… Read More

The veteran Microsoft executive who headed the company's push into console video game software and is credited with launching hits like the PC favorite “Flight Simulator” and “Halo” for the Xbox has resigned, Microsoft said on Tuesday. Ed Fries, who joined Microsoft in 1985 as an intern, had headed the company's game studio since 1995 and was responsible for cementing key relationships with game software… Read More