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After what feels like a long period of pretty significant investment, we finally know what the first big projects to emerge from Amazon Game Studio will look like. Leading the lineup is Breakaway, an eSports orientated 4×4 team sports brawler” which seems tailor made to try and make the most …
Read More »Former long-time EA dev Hilleman joins Amazon Game Studios
Industry veteran Rich Hilleman has jumped ship to Amazon Game Studios following his departure from EA after more than three decades at the publisher. Hilleman joined EA as a support specialist in 1982, becoming its 39th employee. He later went on to work on the John Madden Football and NHL …
Read More »Amazon Game Studios snaps up former long-time EA creative director Rich Hilleman
Hilleman was publisher’s 39th employee when he joined in 1982, going on to work on its Madden and NHL franchises
Read More »Guild Wars 2 lead designer joins Amazon Game Studios
The lead designer of Guild Wars 2 is the latest addition to Amazon’s games development arm. Amazon Game Studios has hired Eric Flannum, who leaves ArenaNet after 10 years at the MMO firm. He will take up the role of creative director, according toGamasutra. Flannum will reportedly be working on …
Read More »Amazon hires Guild Wars 2 lead designer
Eric Flannum joins Amazon Game Studios to work on new PC title
Read More »Two more designers follow Clint Hocking out of Amazon
Principal game designer Jonathan Hamel and director of narrative design Eric Nylund quit studio
Read More »Two more join Hocking in Amazon Game Studios exit
Clint Hocking isn’t the only high-profile member of Amazon Game Studios to leave the developer. It was reported yesterday that Hocking, who joined the then growing studio alongside Portal lead Kim Swift in April 2014, has now left the company. GameSpot reports that two other big names have also exited …
Read More »Clint Hocking leaves Amazon Game Studios
Splinter Cell dev departs retailer's lead studio after just over a year
Read More »Clint Hocking leaves Amazon Game Studios – report
Industry vet Clint Hocking has left Amazon Game Studios, according to a new report. IGN reports on the departure of Hocking, which comes a little over a year after both he and former Valve lead Kim Swift joined Amazon’s development team and just two months following the company announcing new …
Read More »Amazon recruiting for ‘ambitious’ new PC game
Retail giant opens 70 positions across its game development teams
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