{"id":94450,"date":"2019-05-31T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343764"},"modified":"2019-05-31T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:51:00","slug":"former-gearbox-vp-joins-nintendo-to-lead-developer-and-publisher-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/former-gearbox-vp-joins-nintendo-to-lead-developer-and-publisher-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gearbox VP joins Nintendo to lead developer and publisher relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gearbox vice president John Vignocchi has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnVignocchi\/status\/1134217848635609088\">joined Nintendo of America<\/a> to take charge of the company&#8217;s developer and publisher relations team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vignocchi spent just seven months at Gearbox, having joined the<em> Borderlands<\/em> developer as an executive producer back in October 2018 to work on a new franchise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, he worked at Disney Interactive studios for seven years, starting out as a development director before being named vice president of production in 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his new role at Nintendo, Vignocchi explained he&#8217;ll be driving developer and publisher relations across North America, and will be serving under the newly appointed Doug Bowser &#8212; who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337218\/Nintendo_of_America_head_Reggie_FilsAime_retires_Bowser_taking_over.php\">replaced Reggie Fils-Amie as Nintendo of America president back in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to help continue the tradition of building memories through Nintendo that will last a lifetime. I certainly have a lifetime of them already and can\u2019t wait to make more,&#8221; said Vignocchi. &#8220;I\u2019m humbled by this dream opportunity and will work tirelessly to bring you the best that I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Gearbox vice president John Vignocchi has joined Nintendo of America to take charge of the company&#8217;s developer and publisher relations team.&nbsp; Vignocchi spent just seven months at Gearbox, having joined the Borderlands developer as an executive producer back in October 2018 to work on a new franchise.&nbsp; Prior to that, he worked at Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94450","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\/94450","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=94450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}