Ricardo Sanchez (video games)

Ricardo (Rick) Sanchez is the current Vice-President of Content for Turner Broadcasting's GameTap service. He oversees all of the original game and video development, game licensing, and content strategy for the service. Before launching Gametap in 2005, Ricardo was a founder of IGN Entertainment and served as the Vice-President of Publishing, managing IGN, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes, Team Xbox and the Planet Network and Vault Network.

Ricardo is currently best known for promoting the development of episodic games. He has written articles for Gamasutra and GameDaily and presented at the D.I.C.E. Summit on the subject of episodic games, establishing what he calls the "Three Laws of Episodics" that are a guide for GameTap's development of episodic games.

In addition to working on episodic game development, Ricardo is the creator and executive producer of , based on the Tomb Raider franchise featuring the voice of Minnie Driver and the creative talents of Brian Pulido, Warren Ellis, Ivan Reis, Cully Hamner, and Peter Chung among others.

Ricardo Sanchez on Episodic Games

[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/columns/playing_games/e3i289264b71337924963ea9e9454bc641a Stand by for episodic casual gaming] - by Paul Hyman for the Hollywood Reporter, May 2007
[http://www.dicesummit.org/speakers.php?sp_id=108 D.I.C.E. Summit Speaker]
[http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070103/sanchez_01.shtml Why Bother with Episodic?] - Gamasutra, January 2007
[http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/myturn/?id=14284&page=1 What is Episodic?] - GameDaily, October 2006

External links

* [http://www.gametap.com GameTap]

* [http://www.ign.com IGN]

* [http://www.gamespy.com GameSpy]

* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com Rotten Tomatoes]

* [http://www.teamxbox.com TeamXbox]