After what we can only imagine was the most intense game of musical chairs the Atari conference room has ever seen, the company has announced it’s appointed new executives at key positions. Robert Mattes is now the CFO, Owais Farooqui has taken over as senior VP of digital publishing and Maria Pacheco is now the new VP of mobile.
This appointment of new blood follows the company’s focus on digital for the last year or so — these appointments will help Atari to “shift its core focus to casual gaming experiences designed for mobile, social networks and emerging platforms,” the press release reads. Atari will apparently use the expertise of its new VPs to aggressively target Atari.com, Facebook, Google+ (it has games now!), browser-based gaming and tablets and smartphone devices, leveraging classic Atari franchises such as Asteroid, Missile Command, Centipede, Breakout and Pong. First up is Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of Neverwinter, expected to launch on Facebook this fall.
Hit the jump for the full press release.
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