Google’s chief game designer leaves the company in hopes of designing games again

Looks like Google’s Chief Game Designer Noah Falstein still has some unfulfilled goals he wants to pursue. Falstein has announced his resignation from the tech giant after “the opportunity to actually build the big, consequential game” had “failed to materialize.” He was hired back in 2013 when Google was still the parent company for game developer Niantic, which just released the game Ingress a year before. He seemed to have fit right in, bringing in over 30 years of game development and design experience to the company.

But following the restricting in 2015 when Google became Alphabet, Niantic became an independent company. And Google hasn’t really focused on those “big, consequential games” Falstein wanted to make. He hasn’t announced any future plans yet but with his experience, we won’t be surprised if we see him soon.

Source: Android Central

HTC’s lead designer resigns from post less than a year after predecessor

There seems to be a pattern when it comes to HTC these days. Shortly after the M9 release, HTC’s Vice President of Industrial Design Jonah Becker steps down from his post. Last year after the release of M8, Scott Croyle, the former lead designer, also resigned from the position. Becker and Croyle were part of One & Co., a company HTC purchased in 2008. Becker will be replaced by another former colleague of his in One & Co., Daniel Hundt. Let’s hope he sticks around.

Source: Android Police

BBM chief parts ways with BlackBerry

Andrew Bocking, head of BBM instant messaging business, has just left BlackBerry on Monday. Reuters reports that John Chen, the company’s new chief executive, confirmed Bocking’s departure from the Waterloo, Ontario-based technology company. BlackBerry won’t confirm if his departure was part of an internal management shuffle or if it was a personal decision to leave the company. Enterprise segment head John Sims will now be in charge of BBM.

More high level RIM Resignations ahead of reported layoffs

Just a month after previewing their new BlackBerry 10 OS slated to come late 2012, there has been a spate of recent executive departures and now news that restructuring of the company will result in inevitable layoffs.

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