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FoxNext promotes Rick Phillips to weave Kabam’s Aftershock and Fox together

Fox is going about the business of starting an ambitious effort in games. It announced on Tuesday that it was acquiring Aftershock, the remaining studio assets of Kabam.

And now it is filling in the gaps, promoting Rick Phillips as president of licensing and publishing for FoxNext Games. That shows the company will be continue to be serious about licensing even as it starts making some of its own games.

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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.