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 Send to email | NBA Ballers Lead Designer Leaves Midway [Midway] in Midway Business Industry NBA Ballers: Chosen One Original |  By Brian Crecente
el 12-Aug-2008 |  NBA Ballers: Chosen One lead designer John Vignocchi recently gave his two weeks notice at Midway Chicago to help start a new venture capital backed studio in the city.
The new studio, located on the north side of Chicago, will concentrate on creating games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Vignocchi leaves Midway after working on five games with the company over the past 8 and a half years. His departure is just the latest in a stream of lay-offs and departures in the financial strapped company. In an email obtained by Kotaku last night, Matt Booty, interim CEO and president of Midway, told employees that the company laid off 90 Austin workers because the company felt that their open world game Career Criminal was likely not going to be successful, so they killed the project. The layoffs hit less than a week after Midway confirmed to Kotaku that a trio of high-level folks had left Midway's Chicago studio. Among those to leave were Mike Bilder, head of the studio, the internal developer responsible for Stranglehold, Mortal Kombat and Blitz: The League. Other confirmed departures include Mona Hamilton, vice president of marketing, and Reilly Brennan, director of media relations. Two other high level staffers were rumored to have quit, including Vignocchi.
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| NBA Ballers Lead Designer Leaves Midway [Midway] | | NBA Ballers: Chosen One lead designer John Vignocchi recently gave his two weeks notice at Midway Chicago to help start a new venture capital backed studio in the city. The new studio, located on the north side of Chicago, will concentrate on creating games for the Playstation [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Aug-2008 by Brian Crecente in Midway Business Industry NBA Ballers: Chosen One Original
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| Midway Moves TNA Impact Team To San Diego [Midway] | | Midway recently combined its Midway Los Angeles studio with its San Diego one, a move the publisher says will help the TNA Impact! team work better with its other studios in Chicago, Austin, Seattle and Newcastle, UK. Midway looks ready to increase the focus on that st [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Midway News TNA Impact
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| Midway's E3 Lineup Is "Powerful", Say Midway [Midway] | | E3's right around the corner, so it's time for publishers to man up. Puff out their chests, maybe grunt a little, size themselves up against the competition. It's been happening a bit over the past few days, and this morning, it's Midway's turn. Sadly there's no NBA [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jul-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Midway e308 News
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| Midway secures Booty for long haul | | Filed under: Strategy, Business
Seven months after Midway chair Shari Redstone declared the company was seeking "dynamic new leadership," Midway has decided to stick with, well, the guy it was stuck with. Interim president an [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Oct-2008 by James Ransom-Wiley in matt-bootymidway
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| Midway Axes 80 to 90 in Austin? [Rumor] | | Eighty to 90 people were laid off this morning at Midway's Austin office, according to insiders who contacted Kotaku today. Midway has not yet responded to request for confirmation and comment. The rumored deep cuts are said to leave mysterious open [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Aug-2008 by Brian Crecente in Rumor Midway Midway austin Midway chicago Original Top
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| Midway Launches Two Digital Distro Sites [Midway] | | Midway launched two online storefronts for its arcade, PC and touchscreen titles - the first, Midway Arcade, currently offers more than 25 of the company's arcade-style titles like Defender, Joust, Spy Hunter and Mahki, starting at three titles for five bucks. [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Midway Arcade Digital Distribution News PC
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| Two 'hardcore' b-ball franchises on the outs |  Filed under: Sports, Business
Electronic Arts and Midway have shelved their competing arcade-style basketball franchises, as ESPN reports that both NBA Street and NBA Ballers have been benched. Regarding NBA Str [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Oct-2008 by Jason Dobson in electronic-artselectronicartsmidwaynba-ballersnba-street
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| Midway's Net Loss Was $34.8 Million Smackeroos [Business] | | Just when you thought financial reports were over, Midway swings in with its 2008 Q2 results! And those results say that net revenues were down to US$23.4 million compared to last year's Q2 net revenues of $31.8 million. But Midway is upbeat with interim president and CEO Matt Booty: At E3 this year, [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Aug-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Business Midway News Original
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| Midway Taps Booty For Full-Time CEO [Executive Decisions] | | Earlier this year, Midway's CEO David F. Zucker resigned from his position, with the company appointing an interim CEO in his place. Well that interim President and CEO is now the full-time President and CEO as Midway confirms Mr. Matthew V. Booty as their fearless l [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Oct-2008 by Mike Fahey in Executive Decisions Ceo Matthew Booty Midway News
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