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Robert A. Altman, Who Sold ZeniMax Game Studio to Microsoft, Dies

Robert A. Altman 

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Robert A. Altman, the entrepreneur who recovered from a banking scandal to lead a popular video-game maker and sell it to Microsoft Corp., has died. He was 73.

Altman was co-founder and chief executive officer of ZeniMax Media Inc., whose Bethesda studio publishes celebrated game series like the Elder Scrolls, Doom and Fallout. Bethesda didn’t state the cause of death in a tweet.

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