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Company Profile
Disney Interactive
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www.disney.com
About
Disney Interactive Studios produces console and handheld video games for the Wii, DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
On June 5, 2008, Disney Interactive Studios and the Walt Disney Internet Group merged into a single business unit, now known as the Disney Interactive Media Group.
However, in July 2012, Disney Interactive Media Group changed its name to Disney Interactive.
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Senior Producer
Sean Coughlin
Producer
Scott Rudi
Creative Director
Nate Etter
VP, Midcore Games
Joe Canose
Lead Designer
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Articles featuring Disney Interactive
C-level Drama
Report: Disney eyes EA's Andrew Wilson as potential CEO
Wilson is one of three external candidates that are being considered for the job
Week That Was
Week in Views - Industry survival tactics, bold statements and big brands with big plans
The Pocketgamer.biz team pick their highlights from the headlines this week and deliver the stories behind the stories
Into The Unknown
Why Jam City believes Frozen Adventures isn't just another tie-in
“This is a game for fans and avid casual gamers alike”
Partnership
PerBlue tapped for Disney Heroes: Battle Mode mobile RPG
Title part of Disney's new mobile strategy
Glu Disney Partnership
Glu Mobile partners with Disney to use its stories and characters in upcoming mobile game
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes creative lead Mike Olsen taking the helm on the game
Active Agent
The logic behind Disney’s new mobile strategy
A new approach again
The Charticle
Does Disney plus Fox equal a mobile gaming powerhouse?
Poised to shake up the industry?
Behind The Scenes
An ideal match: The making of Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
Sean Coughlin shares development insights
Risky Businesses
As the mouse leaves the game stage, enters a fox
Will FoxNext perform better than Disney Interactive?
Casual Wars
Disney and Genera Games reveal first ever casual puzzle Star Wars game Star Wars: Puzzle Droids
You can never have enough Star Wars games
Crossy Mouse
Disney Crossy Road celebrates one year anniversary and 31 million downloads with new toy line
Get a blocky Mickey for $2.99
Waddle On
Disney's Club Penguin is closing down to make way for mobile-only Club Penguin Island
Get your affairs in order by March 29th
The Ideal Mixi
Marvel Tsum Tsum developer Mixi on catering to the new casual Marvel fan
Senior Producer Erika Nakamura explains why Disney chose Mixi
Alliance Over
Disney shuts down Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 just six months after launch
Four-year-old original title closing too
Too Cute
LINE's Disney Tsum Tsum hits 60 million downloads mark
Matching success
Stark Contrast
Which Marvel games are beating up the US top grossing charts?
Super heroes and villains
Focus On Core
Deeper Heroes: The making of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2
The team at Disney talk design decisions and gameplay balancing
Iap Inspector
Hardcore Heroes: the monetisation of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2
IAPs from the players' perspective
Avengers Autoplay
Auto battles: The differing design decisions of Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Tactics are all well and good until you have an overwhelming force
Luck Of The Roll
Netmarble combines Everyone's Marble with Disney characters, announcing its Disney Magical Dice virtual board game
Korean publisher steps up
From Facebook To Mobile
Disney launches Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2, the sequel to its most successful social game ever
2012 Facebook title gets a 3D, mobile-only sequel
Why Did Mickey Cross The Road?
Disney announces Hipster Whale collaboration Disney Crossy Road
GDC breaking news
Force Multipler
Which Star Wars mobile F2P game took best advantage of The Force Awakens buzz?
EA vs Disney vs Kabam
A New Hope
To Star Wars: The Force Awakens and beyond: How Disney is shooting for midcore mobile success
Nate Etter on the opportunities ahead
Don't Look Back
Disney discontinues close to 100 of its mobile games to focus on "more engaging" titles
Support for legacy titles dries up as Disney looks ahead
A #pgcsanfran Marvel
From Marvel Contest of Champions to Frozen Free Fall: Disney on the power of its brands
Disney's Chris Heatherly explains all
Loss Of Support
UPDATED: Most of Club Penguin's redundancies are support staff
Brighton office closed
Axed
Disney Interactive begins “targeted reduction" of Club Penguin workforce
Teams behind popular brand are shrunk
Walking The Line
Disney Tsum Tsum has generated $300 million
Puzzler cash cow
Disney Dollars
Tsum Tsum's top grossing success in Japan boosts Disney Interactive's sales
Revenues dipped, but profits were up thanks to mobile
Disney reacts to F2P concerns with subscription tie-in for Club Penguin Puffle Wild
Subscribers get everything for free