YoYo Games appoints new GM following Cox's departure to NaturalMotion
“With a talented team of true innovators, I’m excited to take up the mantle of General Manager at YoYo Games and evolve GameMaker to the next level of 2D games development"
By Alex Calvin, PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
The company behind indie game engine GameMaker Studio has announced that Stuart Poole will be heading up the company as its new general manager.
YoYo Games revealed that the head of production and partnerships would be succeeding former boss James Cox.
That exec departed the company in October of last year, taking on the role of senior director of engineering over at NaturalMotion.
Poole's CV includes stints at Microprose, Ocean, Climax and Realtime Worlds.
Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
