Hodgson was enthusiastic when she described the acquisition of State Street Games.  “SSG will bring new blood and new ideas to IT,” she said.  “We’re looking forward to great things from them.”

State Street Games (now called IT West due to the location of their offices in Chicago’s western suburbs) spokesperson, Jim Terdina, echoed Hodgson’s excitement.  “IT’s resources and financial position will allow us to achieve goals and ambitions we could never attain on our own.  They’re a big company but we feel very comfortable with them.”

Along with Terdina, State Street Games personnel include game programmers Joe Chang and Mike Lanasa and artist Steve Gehrke.  All are veterans of the video game industry having worked at various companies including Midway and Electronic Arts.

Other new hires include:

David Pasquinelli has joined IT as a game programmer.  David previously worked at Digiot, where he was responsible for optimizing artificial intelligence for games made for the T-Mobile Sidekick.  He’s a graduate of Full Sail in game development earning a B.S in Computer Science. 

Brendan Dite is IT's new web developer.  Brendan came to IT from Sogeti USA where he worked as a software consultant assisting on numerous Java projects.  Brendan graduated from DePaul University with a B.S. in Information Systems.