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Nintendo's Beth Llewelyn makes her departure official
It looks like Nintendo's exodus from Redmond continues to have repercussions with some familiar names at the company, with senior public relations director Beth Llewelyn now making it official that she won't be making the move to the big N's new San Francisco office. This follows a similar announcement from Senior VP of Marketing George Harrison earlier this month, leaving Perrin Kaplin the last of the big three rumored departures to make up her mind about the move. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Llewelyn's last day at Nintendo will be on September 28th, after which she says she'll be "taking some time off to be a full-time mom for a bit." No word on a successor just yet, but it looks like Nintendo will soon have quite a few positions to fill if things continue at this pace.
Nintendo's Beth Llewelyn quits
Shake that tree, shake it and watch the Nintendo executives fall out and everything end up like people said it would. The latest person in the Nintendo executive culling is Beth Llewelyn, senior director of corporate communications at Nintendo of America, as she officially resigned today. Not only that, but Golin Harris' Julia Roether, guru of Nintendo's PR company in the States, also peaced-out. That sound you hear is Nintendo's PR department running around without a head. We now wait to hear Perrin Kaplan's exit cue.Although some less-than-charitable things can be said about the way Nintendo's PR was run up to this point, it could simply be the same issues as Sony had to deal with taking orders from Japan. Sony of America was starting to turn things around with Dave Karraker, but then he left after less than a year (we really miss Dave). We now wait and see who the replacements are. Will it be business as usual, or will Nintendo's PR alter dramatically?
Hope for Disaster: DoC, less for Project H.A.M.M.E.R
First, the good news: after speaking with NoA's PR star Beth Llewelyn, AMN reports that Disaster: Day of Crisis is trucking along. Since this is one of the games we've been most hoping to see (for a long, long time), we're pleased to hear it. Project H.A.M.M.E.R., however, does in fact seem to be either canceled, or at least indefinitely on some back burner in a forgotten room. Well, E3 can't be all about good news, we supposed, but we seriously wanted to smash things with a giant hammer. And who can blame us?
Nintendo: We haven't heard of anyone leaving
Regardless of what we may have heard, it would seem that Beth Llewelyn (senior director of public relations), Perrin Kaplan (vice president of marketing and corporate affairs) and George Harrison (senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications) haven't decided to take severance pay from the company. Or, at least, they haven't told Nintendo they plan on leaving, as Pro-G found out when contacting Nintendo on some sort of confirmation regarding this mess. "In terms of the execs you name leaving we have not heard anything regarding that speculation (and it remains speculation) and we aren't commenting further on those rumours at this time," Nintendo commented. So, what does this all mean? Not much, right now. These top execs could still be leaving Nintendo, but we'll have to wait for official word from Nintendo before this matter is resolved.[Via Joystiq]
