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Ed Fries was vice president of game publishing at Microsoft during much of the Xbox's lifecycle. He was a prime evangelist of the platform to game developers and had an important role in the acquisition of developers Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios and Rare. Bungie Studios is an American video game developer founded in 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (more popularly shortened to just Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Ensemble Studios is a Microsoft-owned company that has developed many computer games, including the famous Age of Empires series. ... Rare, Ltd is a United Kingdom-based video game development company. ...


Fries left Microsoft in January 2004. He now consults with Sony Online Entertainment and is involved with several startups including AGEIA, which aims to bring the first "physics accelerator" chip for games to market and Emotiv Systems,a company building an EEG based game controller. Wikipedia presents. ... Ageia, founded in 2002, is a fabless semiconductor company. ... Emotiv is a technology company based in Australia and U.S. working on a brain-computer interface technology that can detect and process both human conscious thoughts and non-conscious emotions. ... EEG can mean: Electroencephalography - the method and science of recording and interpreting traces of brain electrical activity as recorded from the skull surface or the device used to record such traces Emperor Entertainment Group - A Hong Kong entertainment company. ...


External links

  • In-depth interview at Kikizo.com
  • Wall Street Journal article about Emotiv Systems
  • Bio on Emotiv's website

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