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NBA Jam creator Turmell leaves EA Sports, heading for Zynga

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NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell has left EA Sports, the company has confirmed.

"We appreciate Mark's contribution to Tiburon and EA Sports and wish him well in future endeavors," it said in a statement to Kotaku.

Turmell joined EA Sports in 2009 to help oversea the development of the rebooted NBA Jam, which he helped create while it was at Midway. It was rumoured last year he was helping to bring back NFL Blitz as well.

Kotaku's reporting that Turmell has now left for Zynga.

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NBA Jam

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Johnny has experience at a wide range of games media outlets, having written for Eurogamer, Play Magazine, PC Gamer, GameDaily, and more. He worked at VG247 pumping out news at an astonishing rate for several years. More recently, he founded the games website PlayDiaries.
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