Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBad Robot Games, a division of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company, hired industry veteran Mike Booth to run its newly created in-house game development studio.Booth, most recently social VR director at Facebook (which he left a year ago), is best known as creator and lead designer of first-person shooter/survival horror game “Left 4 Dead.” He brings more than two decades of experience in the games biz as founder of Turtle Rock Studios (acquired by Valve) and as an exec at Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Arts.In his new role as GM of Bad Robot Games Studio, Booth will help build out a creative development team to develop original titles, starting with its first game — which the company described.
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