1. Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley was born on 1968 and is an American video game designer and former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators.
13 Facts About Seamus Blackley
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Seamus Blackley is best known for creating and designing the original Xbox in 2001.
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Seamus Blackley then went to work at Blue Sky Productions, later called Looking Glass Studios.
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Seamus Blackley is mentioned in the Flight Unlimited manual as follows:.
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Seamus Blackley refused and was fired, leaving the company in late 1995.
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Seamus Blackley said that this announcement raised concerns within Microsoft of how they could challenge Sony.
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Seamus Blackley had already recognized that part of Microsoft's problems for gaming support was the vast number of possible configurations they had to deal with, and their attempts with technologies like DirectX to standardize these.
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Seamus Blackley then promoted the Xbox to game developers around the world.
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Seamus Blackley left Microsoft in 2002 to co-found Capital Entertainment Group with former Microsoft co-worker Kevin Bachus after his time developing the Xbox.
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From 2003 through May 2011, Seamus Blackley represented video game developers at the Creative Artists Agency, evolving the position of video games within the entertainment industry.
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In February 2012, Seamus Blackley cofounded Innovative Leisure in order to recruit game programmers from the Golden age of arcade video games to write mobile games.
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In 2017 Seamus Blackley took a post running the research and development team for the augmented reality startup Daqri to explore methods of producing more powerful holograms and in 2018 became the CEO of tech startup Pacific Light and Hologram.
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In 2019, Seamus Blackley appeared as himself on the 172nd episode of the webseries Angry Video Game Nerd, answering questions regarding development of the video game Trespasser.