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Apple has snapped up game industry vet Bob Drebin, the creator of GameCube’s graphic processor.
This is the second such hire by the company, as it was reported earlier that former Xbox executive Richard Teversham has also joined the company.
These new hires have caused Forbes to speculate that Apple is upping the ante in the gaming sector, and expanding iPhone hardware to better handle portable gaming.
Wall Street rumors suggest differently, and have the company primed to buyout EA, which analyst Michael Pachter called “idiotic“.
Via Gamasutra.
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Robo_1 said:
/strokes chin/
Psychotext said:
iGame
Syrok said:
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark…
Edit:”caused Forbes to speculate that Apple is upping the ante in the gaming sector, and expanding iPhone hardware to better handle portable gaming.”
Sounds plausible. People seem to be quite happy with the games that are on the Appstore.
mart said:
“These new hires have caused Forbes to speculate that Apple is upping the ante in the gaming sector”
NO IDEA how they came to that conclusion.
rainer said:
Don’t such key people sign non-compete contracts which means they cannot work in the same sector for a rival for x number of years after leaving.
The Xbox guy is doing something in Apples education sector which I would assume means its efforts in getting Mac’s into schools.