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
