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Disney Games expands leadership team to invest further in games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Disney has promoted and hired new game industry veterans that show it’s getting more serious about games. It includes the promotion of games lead Sean Shoptaw to executive vice president.

The hires come on the heels of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games to build a Disney-Fortnite universe and CEO Bob Iger’s positive comments about investing in games to go after new audiences.

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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.