{"id":48272,"date":"2018-09-17T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326685"},"modified":"2018-09-17T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T20:45:00","slug":"obituary-game-industry-veteran-gene-mauro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/obituary-game-industry-veteran-gene-mauro\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Game industry veteran Gene Mauro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra\u00a0has learned that digital media executive Gene Mauro passed away on September 15. He was 49.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mauro was best known for founding indie production company Capital Entertainment Group (CEG), and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwebhosting.com\/xee\/tributes\/Eugene-Harold-Mauro\">obituary published<\/a>\u00a0earlier\u00a0in the week includes more detail\u00a0about his career as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the\u00a0impactful work Mauro did as founder of CEG, he also co-founded Myelin Media, a video game publishing company that would go on to release titles on PC and console in over 50 countries, including\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/130559\/the_art_of_the_game_deal_expanded_.php\">Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more insight into the role\u00a0Mauro played at Myelin Media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/qanda-gene-mauros-second-act\/1100-6091540\/\">GameSpot\u00a0published an interview<\/a> back in 2004 highlighting some of his responsibilities running a fledgling business enterprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra\u00a0has learned that digital media executive Gene Mauro passed away on September 15. He was 49.\u00a0 Mauro was best known for founding indie production company Capital Entertainment Group (CEG), and an\u00a0obituary published\u00a0earlier\u00a0in the week includes more detail\u00a0about his career as a whole. In addition to the\u00a0impactful work Mauro did as founder of CEG, he also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48272","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\/48272","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=48272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}