Louis Castle
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Castle at a BAFTA event in Los Angeles in July 2011.
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Occupation | game designer |
Louis Castle is an American video games designer.
Career
Castle co-founded Westwood Studios with Brett Sperry in 1985.[1][2] Castle remained with Westwood when it was bought by Electronic Arts in 1998 and he was a vice president and General Manager of EA's Blueprint Studio.[3] He was given the second annual Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association at the Spotlight Awards in 1999.[citation needed] From 2003 to June 2009, Castle was Vice President of Creative Development at the Los Angeles studio of Electronic Arts.[4] On July 15, 2009, it was announced that Castle would join InstantAction as the new CEO of GarageGames.[5] After InstantAction was shut down in November 2010, Castle went on to become Senior Advisor for Premium FanPage in January 2011,[6] and later joined Zynga as VP of Studios.[7]
Personal life
Castle lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his family.
References
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- ↑ Westwood co-founder Louis Castle leaves for InstantAction
- ↑ Hayes, Trevor (October 30, 2000). "Computer games: They got game", Las Vegas Review-Journal, p. D1.
- ↑ EA Blueprint Studio Head Neil Young Departs Company
- ↑ Forbes profile
- ↑ Lou Castle to Head Up InstantAction as New CEO
- ↑ GamerLiveTV interview, Louis Castle joins team Xiha
- ↑ Former head of InstantAction joins Zynga as VP of Studios
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