Former Disney leader will guide NBCUniversal into mobile games

Disney has staged a big retreat from internally-built games. And NBCUniversal is going to benefit from that, as it has hired Disney’s former mobile games leader Chris Heatherly to lead a new mobile game and virtual reality publishing group.

It’s a recognition that mobile games, which are expected to grow to $46.2 billion in 2017, are a big business and that the film and TV businesses aren’t growing like they once were.