13 Facts About Mike Verdu

Michael Verdu was born on December 28,1964 and is an American manager and producer and author of computer games.

Mike Verdu's father worked for a trade union, his mother was a dance instructor.

Mike Verdu did not finish his studies because Advanced Technology, an IT service provider for the US Department of Defense, offered him a lucrative job as a programmer.

Mike Verdu rented out programming capacities, for example to Bob Bates' video game start-up Challenge Inc which developed text adventures for industry leader Infocom.

In September 1987 Mike Verdu sold Paragon Systems to IT service provider American Systems Corporation where he worked as the business unit director for software development for the following three years.

When defense budgets dwindled down with the end of the Cold War, Mike Verdu turned his passion for computer games into a profession and founded the video game development studio Legend Entertainment together with Bob Bates who in the meantime was affected by the shutdown of Infocom.

Mike Verdu was the CEO of the company and remained on this position until the company was sold to GT Interactive in 1998.

From June 2009 until August 2012 Mike Verdu worked as Chief Creative Officer for American browser game publisher Zynga.

When Kabam was bought up by South Korean video game company Netmarble Mike Verdu went back to Electronic Arts, this time as senior vice president of EA Mobile.

In games business, Mike Verdu mainly laid the focus on being a manager and producer.

Mike Verdu started the Legend Entertainment tradition to obtain licenses for literary works and use them as a blueprint for games.

Mike Verdu had no previous experience in this metier, but Legend found a way to canalise Verdu's thirst for action: The writing of the script was shared between three unexperienced but enthusiastic authors who were supervised by Bates.

In Mission Critical Mike Verdu delved into the topics of evolution and the potential of artificial intelligence.