Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健), the Father of the PlayStation, has resigned his position as Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and will instead become Honorary Chairman. The resignation is effective June 19, 2007, when he will be replaced by the currect President and COO, Kazuo Hirai.
Kutaragi was responsible for the PlayStation, which debuted in …

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Flashback to August of 1995. Westwood Studios released Command & Conquer, a real-time strategy game (RTS) pitting the UN-backed GDI forces against the Brotherhood of Nod. The Brotherhood was supposed to be evil, but GDI was the UN, so it was a tough call to pick your poison. C&C was a fun game. So much so that several sequels and expansion packs were released, including Covert Operations, Sole Survivor, Tiberian Sun, TS Firestorm, and Renegade. An alternate universe series, Red Alert, was also released. It included C&C: Red Alert (1996), Counterstrike and The Aftermath (1997), Red Alert 2 (2000), and Yuri’s Revenge (2001). Another related game is C&C: Generals and its expansion pack, Zero Hour.

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