Warner Bros. has tapped former Glu Mobile president and CEO Greg Ballard to serve as its senior vice president of Digital Games. He will serve under Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, reporting to both division presidents.
Ballard will be in charge of the company’s broad digital distribution business as it pertains to PC, console, handheld and mobile games; online titles, including social games, owned and operated MMOs and “light persistent worlds”; and TV-delivered and on-demand streaming games. That leaves a lot to consider, but we’d be satisfied just to get a lot more Batman DLC for the next one. Make it happen, Ballard.
Additionally, the new vee-pee will oversee Turbine, creator of The Lord of the Rings Online, and has been tasked with recruiting a new GM for the studio.
Most recently, Ballard could be found in the cushy CEO chair of Transpera, a mobile video ad network. He’s also held executive positions at Capcom and the now defunct Digital Pictures, developer of the famously “controversial” early ’90s FMV classic, Night Trap. You know, the genre is making a comeback with iPhone ports … Make it happen, Ballard.
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