Mark Rubin, the former head of Infinity Ward, has joined Gazillion's board.
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How Call of Duty developer moved from studio chief to a fan

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mark Rubin worked on Call of Duty games for nearly a decade. He was executive producer at Infinity Ward, the creator of games like Call of Duty: Ghosts, until early 2015. After he left, he experienced that surreal feeling of shifting from being the head of a 260-person game studio to being a fan.

He suddenly went from having no time to play games to playing games all the way through to completion. Rubin is still a heavy-duty gamer, playing games like Marvel Heroes 2016 and spending a lot of money in the free-to-play online game. In fact, he proved to be such a good fan that David Dohrmann, the CEO of developer Gazillion, invited Rubin to join the company’s board of directors.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.