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IGT hires ex-Zynga game creator to run DoubleDown Casino division

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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International Game Technology (IGT) has hired former Zynga game executive Jim Veevaert as the new vice president of games for its DoubleDown Casino division.

Jim Veevaert
Jim Veevaert of IGT.

Veevaert joins IGT after the founders of Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive, Greg Enell and Cooper DuBois, left IGT two weeks ago. They set in motion a boom for social casino games in January 2012 when IGT, the world’s biggest slot-machine maker, acquired DoubleDown Interactive for $500 million.

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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.