Among those developing executive training games is Relation Technologies in Denmark.
Jens Begemann, chief executive of games-maker Wooga, was typical.
The chief executive of the games, John Tully, said they were on track to deliver "a fantastic sporting event".
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"There are some sacrifices, " said Scott Lowe, executive editor at games website IGN.
At the time Richard Wilson, chief executive of video games industry trade body Tiga, said it was a "brilliant decision".
Half the Sky is the first game ever executive produced by Games for Change, which acquired the license in late 2011.
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One of the biggest segments of social gamers is women over 30, a group that Golden Nugget also targets, according to Seth Gerson, chief executive of Last Legion Games.
Official figures released on Wednesday confirmed that to date some 3, 406 athletes had registered, but chief executive of the Belfast games, John Tully, said "another 2, 417 were in the pipeline, as some teams had registered under a captain".
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About 2% of the population have a learning disability and the games' chief executive officer, Karen Wallin, said there were not enough sporting opportunities for them.
"I understand that some of those private sector organisations are in discussions with the tourist board around the legislative requirements to do that in Northern Ireland, " said the games' chief executive John Tully.
For instance, Ben Stevens had received seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars over three years from the Special Olympics, as the chief executive of the 2001 Winter Games in Anchorage, for which his father had brought millions of dollars in federal aid.
Peter Bishop, deputy chief executive of LCC, said the Games presented a "great opportunity" to generate new business.
Chris Miller, whose history includes a VP gig at Vivendi Universal and an executive producer credit on the video games F.
Timothy Loew, the executive director of the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), sees a silver lining in the clouds over Rhode Island.
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Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president of the EA Games Label, told me the studio is taking the technology that James Cameron utilized for Avatar and pushing it even further for this new game.
In 1999, he left the business world to become the president and chief executive of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, after fiscal and ethical problems emerged under the previous management.
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The Executive at Stormont is keen for the games to be seen as a success to prove Northern Ireland is capable of hosting an event of its size.
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One executive involved in the bidding said bids for four Games would average 5%-10% higher on a per-Games basis than bids for just the 2014 and 2016 Games.
The benefits of tying charity to gaming is that users want to play more and are much more engaged with the games, said Adam Archer, chief executive of GamesThatGive.
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"There was plenty of speculation Zynga was getting referrals within the Facebook community that other gaming companies weren't getting which helped drive web traffic to Zynga games, " Digital World Research chief executive PJ McNealy said.
"The eligibility of the athletes has already been investigated and authorized by the international federation and, if they hadn't been cleared, they wouldn't have participated in the games, " said Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic Committee.
"Web-based email could be a great platform for social applications, " says Shervin Pishevar, executive chairman of Social Gaming Network, a social games developer, who sees more similarities between social networking incumbents like Facebook and Twitter with Google Buzz than just the sharing of statuses, links and other media.
"Clearly, with our audience of Android users, they are not gravitating towards games on the platform, " says Mplayit chief executive Michael Powers.
The IOC executive board will recommend one sport for entry into the 2020 Games and the full IOC will vote in September.
In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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"When Joe kindly agreed to help us out six weeks ago it was always with just the last nine games of the season in mind, " said chief executive Alan Hardy.
Rangers chief executive Martin Bain said everyone at Ibrox was looking forward to the group games.
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