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CTOnews.com, July 3, according to MobileGamer.biz, Sony's mobile gaming unit PlayStation Mobile has undergone a number of executive changes recently. The latest news is that Michail Katkoff, the general manager of Savage Game Studios, who has been acquired by Sony for less than a year, has announced his departure.

Katkoff said on LinkedIn that he believes he has made a contribution to the company from scratch, and now he looks forward to seeing Nadjim and Mike lead the company from strong to strong. He also wishes Olivier Courtemarche and Kris Davis, who will lead PlayStation Mobile into the mobile game market, and look forward to playing all the excellent games.

Savage Game Studios is a new game studio founded in 2020 by experienced mobile game developers Katkoff (Rovio, Zynga), Nadjim Adjir (Wargaming, Rovio) and Michael McManus (Wargaming, Insomniac).

CTOnews.com noted that Katkoff's departure came on the heels of news of a change in PlayStation Mobile's leadership. Last month, Nicola Sebastiani, head of PlayStation Mobile's division, announced his departure, and Nicola Sebastiani, who was the head of Apple's game subscription service Apple Arcade, attracted attention when he joined PlayStation Mobile in 2021.

In the past two years, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has quietly built a team of experienced mobile game talent, poaching a lot of talent from Apple, Kabam, Meta, Tencent, Super Evil Megacorp, Samsung, Niantic, Zynga, Riot and other companies. SIE President Jim Ryan said in a business briefing last year that the company expects that by 2025, half of its annual releases will be games from PC and mobile platforms.

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