{"id":59163,"date":"2018-11-01T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329838"},"modified":"2018-11-01T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:45:00","slug":"obituary-amazon-digital-games-biz-dev-boss-dan-winters-passes-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/01\/obituary-amazon-digital-games-biz-dev-boss-dan-winters-passes-at-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Amazon Digital Games biz dev boss Dan Winters passes at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u00a0Digital Games head of business development Dan Winters has passed away at the age of 55.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/10\/31\/amazon-digital-games-biz-dev-veteran-dan-winters-dies-from-cancer\/\">report from VentureBeat<\/a>, Winters, who has a long history in the games business at companies like Warner Brothers Interactive, Activision, and Electronic Arts, succumbed to the effects of cancer sometime this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, many developers are remembering Winters as a positive presence in the game industry. Before entering the world of video games, Winters played professional baseball for the Oakland A&#8217;s, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u00a0Digital Games head of business development Dan Winters has passed away at the age of 55.\u00a0 According to a report from VentureBeat, Winters, who has a long history in the games business at companies like Warner Brothers Interactive, Activision, and Electronic Arts, succumbed to the effects of cancer sometime this week.\u00a0 On Twitter, many developers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59163","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\/59163","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=59163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}