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In the Hot Seat: Hilmar Pétursson on Eve Online's $120m buyback and the games industry's unplanned disassembly

Our next guest for In the Hot Seat has spent more than two decades at the helm of one of Iceland's best-known game studios. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson joined the Icelandic studio, then called CCP Games, as CTO in 2000 and became CEO in 2004.

In the Hot Seat: Hilmar Pétursson on Eve Online's $120m buyback and the games industry's unplanned disassembly

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Our next guest for In the Hot Seat has spent more than two decades at the helm of one of Iceland's best-known game studios.

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson joined the Icelandic studio, then called CCP Games, as CTO in 2000 and became CEO in 2004.

through changing markets, changing ambitions and now, a changing name.

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Our next guest for In the Hot Seat has spent more than two decades at the helm of one of Iceland's best-known game studios. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson joined the Icelandic studio, then called CCP Games, as CTO in 2000 and became CEO in 2004. through changing markets, changing ambitions and now, a changing name.

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through changing markets, changing ambitions and now, a changing name. His company now answers to a third name, Fenris Creations.

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