PlayStation’s former head of internal game production Connie Booth, who departed Sony last October after nearly three decades, has joined EA to to oversee its action-RPG portfolio.
During her tenure at Sony, Booth worked on a roll-call of famous PlayStation franchises, including Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank, inFamous, Resistance, Uncharted, The Last of Us, and Marvel’s Spider-Man. At the time of her departure, former God of War and Twisted Metal game director David Jaffe claimed Booth had been fired amid internal tensions relating to PlayStation’s increased focus on live service games under outgoing boss Jim Ryan.
As reported by IGN, Booth will now take her decades of expertise to EA, where she’ll serve as Group General Manager, Action RPG. It’s a role that’ll see Booth overseeing a portfolio of studios include Dead Space remake creator EA Motive (currently developing Iron Man), Black Panther studio Cliffhanger Games, and BioWare, which is currently working on long-awaited new entries in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series.
