The master of zinger quotes, EA spokesman Jeff Brown skis off to GoPro

Jeff Brown, who served for 14 years as the sarcastic voice of Electronic Arts, has left the company and joined action sports camera maker GoPro as its new head of corporate communications.

We wouldn’t normally write about the chief PR guy for one company moving to another. But Brown’s departure marks the end of an era of verbal jousting at EA, which suffered no slight from a competitor to go unanswered during Brown’s reign across several chief executives.

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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.