{"id":112904,"date":"2020-05-14T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363010"},"modified":"2020-05-14T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:23:00","slug":"former-xbox-exec-j-allard-is-now-intellivisions-global-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/former-xbox-exec-j-allard-is-now-intellivisions-global-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Xbox exec J Allard is now Intellivision&#8217;s global managing director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J Allard, one of the key figures behind the early days of Xbox, has joined up with Intellivision Entertainment ahead of the company\u2019s big Intellivision Amico launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The new position sees Allard as Intellivision\u2019s global managing director, a role <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/05\/14\/intellivision-taps-xbox-veteran-j-allard-as-global-managing-director\/\">Intellivision tells VentureBeat<\/a> will task him with supporting the upcoming retro console debut by managing a number of operations critical to that launch, including UX, developer support, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week has me back on the field and not just cheering from the stands \u2014 it\u2019s a great feeling,\u201d Allard tells VentureBeat. \u201cThere\u2019s a need, an opportunity, and a terrific, scrappy team committed to take it on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Allard, one of the key figures behind the early days of Xbox, has joined up with Intellivision Entertainment ahead of the company\u2019s big Intellivision Amico launch later this year. The new position sees Allard as Intellivision\u2019s global managing director, a role Intellivision tells VentureBeat will task him with supporting the upcoming retro console debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}