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Turbine hires Rolston, game industry veterans for high-level positions
Turbine wants you to know that it has hired a smattering of industry veterans to complement its existing Boston-based development team. Notables include former Elder Scrolls and Kingdoms of Amalur lead Ken Rolston, who steps into Turbine's Director of Design role. Mortal Kombat veteran Alan Villani is Turbine's new VP of Technology and responsible for driving "online engagement and monetization." Former Zynga manager Jai Singh has signed on to oversee Turbine's "online operations hosting and computing infrastructure, technical support, and network operations." Finally, Demetrius Comes, formerly of Petroglyph, is now Turbine's Executive Director of Engineering. [Source: Turbine press release]
Turbine hires Ken Rolston as new director of design, makes other staffing additions
Ken Rolston of Morrowind, Oblivion and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning fame is now the director of design at Turbine, the company announced this morning. Rolston's responsibilities will include leading "the vision and the implementation of all aspects of game design for Turbine."Rolston is joined by three others in the announcement: Alan Villani, formerly of Mortal Kombat dev NetherRealm Studios, is now Turbine's vice president of technology and "will be responsible for [the] digital technology platform that helps drive online engagement and monetization."Zynga alumni Jai Singh joins as the executive director of technical operations, in charge of Turbine's technical infrastructure and network operations, while ex-Petroglyph Games member Demetrius Comes fills the role of executive director of engineering, where he will oversee "all engineering functions for the studio's project development team."
