John Davison Named VP for Games and Metacritic at CBS Interactive

My thread title is a bit off I think. Quote states "Vice President of Programming for Games and Metacritic". Sorry for missing that.
 

 SAN FRANCISCO - September 7, 2010 - GameSpot, the leading source for gaming information online and a property of CBS Interactive Inc., today announced that John Davison has been named Vice President of Programming for Games and Metacritic, CBS Corporation.

Davison will oversee programming strategy for GameSpot, Metacritic and GameFAQs and work closely with Ricardo Torres, Editor in Chief of GameSpot, and Marc Doyle, Editor and Co-founder of Metacritic, to expand the sites' content and develop their brands in the coming years.

"A programming executive of John's caliber brings tremendous talent and experience to our team," said Simon Whitcombe, Vice President, Games. "We have opportunities to develop our brands extensively in the near future and John will add significant power to our abilities to capitalize on them."

Davison comes to GameSpot with nearly 20 years of experience managing content and working on multiple print and online brands. He was most recently Executive Vice President of Content at IDG's GamePro, which saw growth in traffic and user engagement after he revitalized the 20-year-old brand for a modern audience.

Prior to GamePro, Davison defined a new category of video games media in 2007 as co-founder and President of What They Play. The site brought issues related to video games and parenting to a national audience and won a Parents Choice Award in 2009. Before What They Play, Davison was Senior Vice President in charge of Content for the Ziff Davis Media Game Group, transitioning the editorial team's content strategy from print to online. 

Yeah should be interesting. By all accounts he did a good job at Gamepro so wonder what he has planned for Gamespot. On the old 1UP podcasts I'm sure he was pretty critical of Metacritic but I can't see him doing anything too radical with them now he's the man in charge

Maybe he can un-fuck gamefaqs?

Isn't he the host of Hollywood Squares?

GameFAQs needs a makeover.

Me too. Going back even further, PC Zone magazine here in the UK was always a great read when he was in charge of it.

Good for him. I don't generally go to those sites, but I liked him on the 1up podcast, and on the What They Play site. Hopefully he'll be a good fit for them.

I always liked him on 1up Yours and was a huge fan of what he did with GamePro, I'll start visiting Gamespot and Gamefaqs now to see if he can do anything with them.

WHAT? 
 
Dude, I love John Davison, and I do hope he can make these things suck less but...  what?!