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John Spinale navigates Disney’s push into social gaming (interview)

John Spinale is senior vice president of social games at Disney. He’s in charge of making sure that Disney takes its big brands and familiar characters into the social gaming market — in the right way. He runs the Playdom division, which Disney acquired for $763.2 million in 2010. Disney bought Playdom because it isn’t as easy as you think to take an older brand into the new medium of Facebook and create a hit game.

Spinale joined six months ago after a stint as the top publishing executive at cloud-gaming startup OnLive. He has had a long career in games and has seen a lot of change. Hal Halpin, the founder of the Entertainment Consumers Association, interviewed Spinale in a fireside chat at our GamesBeat 2012 conference.

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acronkyoung4298d ago

Can't wait until I'm getting annoyed by friends spamming me with invites and requests from Disney-licensed Facebook games.

crazytown994298d ago

I was just thinking that I can't wait for a fresh round of App Combat.

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Disney adds Blizzard and Ubisoft veterans to its games leadership team

Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…

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Disney Realm Breakers Gets Soft Launch for Android in Select Regions

Disney Realm Breakers by JOYCITY Corp hs soft launched in select regions, including the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia.

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Seven Fortnite x Disney crossover skins we desperately want to happen

Video Games writes: Here is a list of seven dream Fortnite x Disney skins we desperately want to happen following the newly announced partnership.

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