{"id":115445,"date":"2020-07-15T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366467"},"modified":"2020-07-15T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:47:00","slug":"reggie-fils-aima-is-now-a-strategic-adviser-for-indie-publisher-rogue-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/reggie-fils-aima-is-now-a-strategic-adviser-for-indie-publisher-rogue-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Fils-Aim\u00c3\u00a9 is now a strategic adviser for indie publisher Rogue Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Ami\u00e9 has adopted another retirement pastime: acting as a strategic adviser for indie publisher Rogue Games. That role will see Fils-Aim\u00e9 leveraging his years of industry experience to offer guidance to Rogue Games\u2019 board of directors, advice now invaluable to Rogue as it expands beyond PC games and into the console game business.<\/p>\n<p>Fils-Aim\u00e9 is best known as the charismatic head of Nintendo of America, a position he held for over a decade before <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337218\/Nintendo_of_America_head_Reggie_FilsAime_retires_Bowser_taking_over.php\">retiring from the company<\/a> in February 2019. Since, Fils-Aim\u00e9 continues to be involved with the video game industry, often in an advisory capacity. Some of his notable post-retirement ventures include joining the board of directors for both the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350852\/Reggie_FilsAime_joins_New_York_Videogame_Critics_Circle_board.php\">New York Video Game Critics Circle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/359315\/Reggie_FilsAim_to_join_GameStop_board_of_directors.php\">GameStop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefit of being retired is that I get to work with people I like and companies that I feel are doing unique and valuable things,\u201d Fils-Aim\u00e9 explains in a chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/07\/15\/rogue-games-appoints-reggie-fils-aime-as-strategic-adviser\/\">VentureBeat<\/a>. \u201cIn Rogue\u2019s case, I have known Matt Casamassina and Chris Archer for years. They do things the right way and are willing to benefit from my years of experience. And they are leading an incredibly talented team who have a fresh vision for how to do digital games publishing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Ami\u00e9 has adopted another retirement pastime: acting as a strategic adviser for indie publisher Rogue Games. That role will see Fils-Aim\u00e9 leveraging his years of industry experience to offer guidance to Rogue Games\u2019 board of directors, advice now invaluable to Rogue as it expands beyond PC games and into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115445","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\/115445","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=115445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}