Pete Hawley, the former general manager and senior VP of games a Zynga, has been appointed the new president and CEO of Telltale Games.

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As reported by Variety , Hawley will step into the position—currently held by acting CEO Dan Connors, who will move to an advisory role—on September 18. Connors took on the role earlier this year, after former CEO Kevin Bruner announced he was stepping down in March.Prior to working at Zynga, Hawley had leadership roles at Electronic Arts and Criterion Games, and was CEO and co-founder of location-based games developer Red Robot Labs."With dynamic new leadership, a strong market position, and a AAA roster of top intellectual property, Telltale has an exciting path forward, and the collaborative opportunities for our two content companies are greater than ever," Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer—who made a "significant investment" in Telltale Games in 2015—said of Hawley joining the developer.While Season 2 of Telltale's Game of Thrones series is currently "on hold," the studio has several other projects in the works, including a second season of The Wolf Among Us , which will be released sometime next year, and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, of which three episodes have been released thus far

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