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SEAMUS BLACKLEY
Agent, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) /
Co-Creator of the Xbox game platform
Seamus Blackley is an agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a talent and literary agency based in Beverly Hills, Calif. Blackley’s role is to help guide and execute CAA’s strategy for representing video game creators in a full-service manner – securing and negotiating deals with game publishers, with film and television studios, and with networks, and building and servicing client development companies to give game designers greater creative and financial control. The top-selling game designer joined Microsoft in 1999 and piloted the creation of the Xbox game platform. While at Microsoft, the former physicist and DreamWorks Interactive executive producer wrote the initial proposal for Xbox, assembled and led the team behind the technical design and philosophy for the platform, and established and nurtured support for Xbox within the game development community worldwide. After Microsoft, Blackley and a group of his Xbox business partners launched Capital Entertainment Group (CEG), a game production company that aimed to produce and finance games in partnership with game developers and publishers.
