Headline RePLAY – 8.1.12

Today on Headline RePLAY: Zynga undergoes reorganization, additional details on the latest Final Fantasy XIII title and Valve adds a “no class action lawsuits” clause to Steam.


Following recent massive stock losses, Zynga has reshuffled their senior executives, which consequently includes COO John Schappert, who is no longer in charge of the company’s games.

According to Gamasutra, Schappert’s duties have been transferred to chief mobile officer David Ko and executive VP Steve Chiang. They formerly reported to Schappert, but now will be directly reporting to CEO Mark Pincus.

Schappert was the COO at EA before he joined Zynga a year and three months ago.

|Source: Gamasutra


Square-Enix made it no secret that there will be Final Fantasy XIII news during the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary event. In this week’s Famitsu, however, the publisher dangled some additional details.

Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 producer Yoshinori Kitase told Famitsu that not only is the project already underway, but the project’s official title will also be reveled at the anniversary event.

The event is being held on September 1st in Shibuya, Japan.

|Source: Andriasang


Echoing Sony’s efforts last year to stop being targeted by class-action lawsuits for their PSN service, Valve similarly announced the addition of a “no class action sue” clause in the Steam Subscriber Agreement today.

Valve says the provision was necessary because it doesn’t provide any “real benefit” to users and instead causes “unnecessary expense” and “delay” at the benefit of class action lawyers who craft and litigate the claims.

While Valve concedes that class action claims do have “real benefits” to customers “in some situations,” the company argues that too many of them do not benefit Valve or its communities.

|Source: Steam

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