He has worked as a producer on multiple award-winning video games, including Unreal PC,[1] Bomberman Live,[2] and Pirates of the Caribbean.
[6] Joel Breton is a member of the Steering Committee for the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR), where he works to advance AR/VR technology in the global marketplace.
[7] Breton is a video game industry veteran who began his career in 1994 when he landed a role at Sega of America in Product Development.
Breton returned to California in 2005 where he joined Take Two Interactive and worked as a producer on World Poker Tour for the PS2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance platforms.
[12] From 2007 until 2010 Joel held the position of Director of Content for AddictingGames.com, MTV Network's leading website[13] with more than 30 million monthly visitors.
[15] Joel is a frequent speaker at game industry conventions and he represented MTV Networks and AddictingGames by speaking at the Casual Connect conference in Kiev in 2008.
Breton then joined Headgames, a game development company in San Francisco where he worked as a designer on Killwheel and Sirens for the PC and PlayStation platforms.
He worked as a producer on several first-person shooting (FPS) games during his three years at GT Interactive including, Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes,[29] and Blood 2.
During his time there he produced World Poker Tour,[28] Major League Baseball 2k6,[28] and Amped 3[29] which was an Xbox 360 launch title.
He also produced several other console and mobile games while at Hudson Entertainment, including Bonk's Adventure, Diner Dash, and Military Madness.
He worked with development teams to create many of the top online game franchises including—Sniper Assassin, The Heist, Bad Boys, Moto Rush, and Stick Hero.