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WildTangent Founder Alex St John Joins hi5

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By Tom Ivan

December 1, 2009

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Alex St John, the founder of online gaming network WildTangent, has joined social gaming site hi5 as president and chief technology officer.

Founded in 2003 and available in over 50 languages, hi5 claims to be “among the top 20 largest websites in the world and the leading destination site focused on social gaming and entertainment”.

In his new role St John will be responsible for hi5’s product development, technology, network operations and audience growth.

During St John’s time at WildTangent, the site produced over 100 downloadable, streaming and multiplayer games, amassing more than 30 million unique monthly visitors.

Prior to forming WildTangent, St John led the creation of the DirectX gaming platform as Microsoft’s group manager for Windows media strategy and marketing.

"The next wave of innovation and differentiation in gaming is happening in social gaming and hi5 is at the forefront of this sea change," said St John. "I've long said that the current generation of game consoles will be the last and that the future of the game business will be online. I'm thrilled to be joining a company that has the team, technology and vision to lead that transition."
 

Ben_Lathwell's picture
On December 1st Ben_Lathwell said:

Take a look at what this man is doing in this photo, take a long hard look.

Now ask yourself the question "do i ever want to sleep with a woman ever again?"

If the answer is yes then DO NOT adopt this look!!!

ITS NOT 1983 PUT THE CIGAR AWAY

savagehenry's picture
On December 1st savagehenry said:

I'll leave it to a better man than I to straighten this out!

Haven’t we had enough of this cigar smoking shit? When are these fat, arrogant, overfed white-collar business criminals going to extinguish their cigars and move on to their next abomination?

Soft, white, business pussies suckin’ on a big brown dick. You know, Freud used to say that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Yeah? Well, sometimes it’s a big, brown dick! With a fat, criminal-business asshole sucking on the wet end of it.

But, hey! The news is not all bad for me. Not all bad. Want to hear the good part? Cancer of the mouth. Good! Fuck em’. Makes me happy: It’s an attractive disease. So light up, suspender man, and smoke that smoke deep down into your empty suit. And blow it out your ass, you miserable cocksucker.

– George Carlin 1937 - 2008

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On December 1st DubsTF said:

Attention seeker joins boastful firm I've never heard of, predicts sweeping industry-wide anti-consumer changes. Thanks, cigar asshole! Keep up the good work.