Former Sony exec, Phil Harrison, joins Infogrames
- Posted March 3rd, 2008 at 19:51 EDT by
- 38 Comments
A little over a week ago, former long-time SCE worldwide executive Phil Harrison, announced his resignation from the company he helped bring up, and today, he has announced he will be hoping to right a new ship.
After a week of speculation, Harrison announced today that he will be officially joining Infogrames, the parent company of the Atari Group. His new position will have him reporting to newly appointed CEO David Gardner, and Harrison will have the position of "Directeur Général Délégué." The company released a statement commenting on the union of two strong figures in gaming saying that the two will, "form the basis of a transformational leadership team at Infogrames that will grow the Atari brand into a leading online game company."
"This is the perfect time to join Infogrames and help shape the future of Atari - one of the industry's legendary brands," Harrison said in the release. "As the game business moves rapidly online I believe we have an outstanding opportunity to create amazing network game and community experiences for players the world over."
Having extensive experience at Sony, Harrison will oversee the studios and content development for the company and be in charge of boosting the group's publishing activities; he will also have a seat on the company's board of directors.
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dfontes1188 |
dfontes1188- 8:19pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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Hopefully he encourages them to bring some good titles to the PS3.
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robbinator |
cowkong- 8:54pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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I rele hav high hopes for phil, i cant wait to c wat he can do to change the world of gaming. I rele think he will create a good series of games.
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encryptioncsta |
csta- 8:55pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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yeah i hope he does tht lol mean peter moore going to EA oviously done microsoft sum gd but gd luck phil and remember
theres no place like HOME!
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terminator12259 |
tacitassassin25- 9:29pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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y would he leave one of the biggest companies in the world for atari
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Alpha2
- 9:43pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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Good luck to him. Glad things are working up and who knows maybe this will help Sony in the future.
Most likely Atari offered him a lot more than he was making at sony or offered hima position where he could have even more control than the had before. Either way it seems he planned it since he was out of work no more than a week.
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Deusthousand |
Deusthousand- 10:13pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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Good 2 see him go to legends who need rebuilding. Sony should buy them.
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DemonOfRazgriz89 |
DemonOfRazgriz07- 11:22pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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screw Infogrames, Sony is where he needs to stay... :(
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zbamf
- 11:27pm GMT - March 3rd, 2008
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@mcain
He knows the industy and how Sony does business but does he know the programming side of the PS3's arcitecture? I doubt he will help Atari get the most from PS3, he's not even working with Atari, he's at Infogrames doing business stuff.
I liked Phil, he was the only one who didn't sound like a robot at keynotes unlike Microsoft's. But he has gone down the career ladder, maybe the pressure of running all of Sony gaming worldwide studios was too much. Now Kaz has to run all that and is also the head of SCE, good look to that Kaz.
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dccr1234 |
suicidfreakdance- 12:22am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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i dont know if you guys see it comin but, with home realesing soon and phill goin to Ataris "infogrames", i have a feeling he will bring bad titles exlusive to the ps3 and HOME, i got my money on that, just wait and see.....OR microsoft will be willing to pay big bucks for thouse games, like they did with the stupid gta4 epicodic content, cuz now i herd that tha ps3 is going to get some special treament as well.......but we will see soon enuff
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 12:59am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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Or maybe Sony asked him to resurrect Atari so Sony could buy them and he'd be back at Sony in no time.
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Syphon_Filter |
Syphon_filter2- 2:23am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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Shame on him he left Sony, and maybe they will pay him more but i hope he will fail. lool
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flameboyNE |
flameboyNE- 2:54am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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A crazy move! What will he come with at Atari? What online products can we expect to see?!
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ProfSebastian
- 3:37am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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YUUJUUUUU!!! Inforgames (Atari) was one of my favorites company when i was young with the Alone in the Dark series, Time Gate, and Prisioner of Ice among others, the only lovecraftnian videogame company that i know beside "Irrational games".
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Die-romantic |
Demon_King- 4:01am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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Great that Phil Harrison joined Infogrames instead of EA Finally Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 online Tourament and epic battles
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dj_sup3r1or |
sup3r1or- 4:03am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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Why they gave him a bigger paycheck than in sony?
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VIPER-G1 |
VIPER-G1- 4:56am GMT - March 4th, 2008
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We will all miss the big guy but he has done really well at Sony. Hopefully this means Phil can get some more games on the PS3 through Infogrames who have been pretty quiet recently really with Alone in the Dark 5 being its real main attraction. Although it's actually being made by partner company Eden Games but its still Infogrames as they own something like 51.2% of Atari. Well they did last time I checked, I wish Phil a good future where he is anyway.
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Untildeath89 |
willmakenewonesoon- 1:51pm GMT - March 4th, 2008
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ms arent the only ones planting eggs on 3d party :D
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 2:39pm GMT - March 4th, 2008
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What can i say?Phil's pretty dumb if he actually resigned from the position he had at Sony,but i do believe he was probably pushed.
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