In a surprise move, former Ubisoft executive and EA Motive founder Jade Raymond has left the behemoth publisher. Games Beat reports that Samantha Ryan – who’s currently in charge of Maxis, BioWare, and EA’s mobile studios – will take over, fronting all of the company’s North American sub-units apart from Respawn and EA Sports.
The reason for Raymond’s departure is unclear. EA Motive was working on an unannounced Star Wars game, but it’s also functioned as a support studio for various games, including Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
“In her time with us, Jade helped to build great teams, and our projects underway at Motive and other studios continue unchanged,” said EA’s head of communications John Reseburg. “We’re appreciative of all of her efforts, and we wish Jade all the best as she moves on to her next adventure. We are driving greater creativity into everything we do across EA Studios, and we’ll look forward to sharing more in the months to come.”
[source venturebeat.com]
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One of about a zillion people responsible for bringing us the Assassin's Creed franchise. Can work where she wants as far as I'm concerned, wishing her all the best whatever she turns her hands to next.
First mention of her on this site is talking about the next Assassin's Creed game coming out "next year". Awww, back when there was only one of them, and it was just okay.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2009/01/assassins_creed_to_be_clutched_within_your_bloody_palms_by_march_2010
Shes very pretty sure she will find a new job easy enough
now maybe she can go back to Ubisoft and sort Assassin's Creed out
@FullbringIchigo Yes please! It needs that. Ubisoft can have two historical series. In fact, they could balance each other out in terms of releases so we don’t see annual releases.
@Kidfried i was talking about the narrative of the series, perhaps i should have put that in my previous post
gameplay wise the series is doing fine
why? because ea is a dead end company with nothing of value to add to the industry. she should have left years ago...
Amy Hennig and Jade Raymond were in charge of the cancelled Star Wars single-player game, right? Now both left the company.
What a mess and Star Wars IP deserves a better publisher.
@glassmusic What a quaint little article.
hahahahah holy sh*t dont google Samantha Ryan at work ....
Not a good sign for the Star Wars game...
I didn't know you could walk away from the devil after selling your soul.
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