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Leading Game Industry Recruiter Places Vice President at Bethesda Softworks,
Senior Executive to Oversee MMO Development for North America
Tuesday, July 10, 2007---Fort Lauderdale, FL---GameRecruiter.com, the leader in international recruitment services for the interactive entertainment industry, is pleased to announce their recent placement of senior executive Matt Firor as vice president of MMO for Bethesda Softworks in Maryland.
In his new role, Firor will be handling oversight and product development for Bethesda Softworks’ MMO division, focusing on bringing the latest technology and design practices in MMO production to the forefront of the company’s online game initiatives.
An expert in the development of online games, Firor is formerly vice president of product development and executive producer at Mythic Entertainment, where he was responsible for overall vision and management of each project at Mythic, including oversight of game design and features.
Matt produced all of Mythic's titles, including first-person shooters, top-down spaceship combat games, text-based MUDs, and the worldwide hit Dark Age of Camelot, and its expansion packs. He most recently worked on Mythic's Warhammer MMORPG and other internal projects.
Firor began developing games in the late 1980's, and co-founded Interesting Systems Inc. in 1991, to make multi-player role-playing games. After leaving ISI in 1994 to concentrate on software development, Matt joined Mythic Entertainment in late 1995 at their formation.
Howard Taule, COO and co-founder of GameRecruiter.com, states, “Firor has demonstrated a world-class level of MMO leadership that has become increasingly crucial in the highly competitive arena of online games development. By staying on top of the evolution of the MMO industry, GameRecruiter was poised to provide the most ideal executive candidate to our client, Bethesda Softworks. We feel they have made an excellent choice and that Firor will bring them unprecedented production success in their MMO objectives.”
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GameRecruiter.com Places VP at Bethesda Softworks
Matt Firor offers, "Bethesda Softworks already has a long history of successful PC and console games. I’m excited to join their team at a time of change, as they focus on MMO development. The leadership at GameRecruiter.com was instrumental in representing me to Bethesda Softworks, and did an outstanding job of shepherding me through the hiring process while providing the company with expert guidance and support. Their untiring efforts have helped me land a rare opportunity to participate in building a branded company’s vision.”
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About Bethesda Softworks
www.bethsoft.com
Bethesda Softworks has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content for over two decades. With a broad panoply of games in role-playing, racing, simulation, and sports, Bethesda Softworks major franchises are distributed worldwide. Bethesda is credited with the creation of the first physics-based sports simulation (Gridiron) in 1986 for the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga and Commodore 64/128, which led to Bethesda's creation of the first John Madden Football game for Electronic Arts. Despite their long history of development in many genres, they are perhaps best known for creating The Elder Scrolls RPG series which Weaver initiated in 1992, based upon the original programming of Julian Lefay.
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