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Why Mike DeLaet gave up the CEO job at Rogue Games to be an exec at Scopely

It’s not every day a game publisher CEO quits to take a job as a senior vice president at another company. But that’s what Mike DeLaet did when he left Rogue Games to head strategic partnerships at Scopely.

The move shocked the team of 10 at Rogue Games, but it also gave others in the organization an opportunity to move up, DeLaet said in an interview with GamesBeat. His decision shows that titles aren’t always what matters when you make a career change, and sometimes a lateral shift is a good career move.

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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.