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Xbox Exec Flees Microsoft To Fix The Failing Virtual Farm That Is Zynga

Xbox Exec Flees Microsoft To Fix The Failing Virtual Farm That Is Zynga

A couple weeks back, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick defended the Xbox One’s most controversial aspects — and irking a number of military personnel in the process — by saying that people who wanted to play a video game console without connecting to the Internet could just buy an Xbox 360. He then had to take it all back when the company decided it didn’t want to lose customers to Sony. Now Mattrick is jumping off the U.S.S. Microsoft to go tend virtual fields as the CEO of another much-derided gaming company, Zynga. [More]