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A further six members of staff have left Google Stadia for new roles at Haven Studios, the venture founded by former Stadia VP Jade Raymond. As spotted by a poster on Resetera, staff across multiple disciplines have taken positions at the Montreal-based studio between April and May. Among the hires is Corey May, former head of creative services and publishing at Google Stadia, and former Stadia general manager Sebastien Puel, who is also a co-founder of Haven Studios. Raymond left Google Stadia back in February to form Haven Studios, shortly after Google closed its internal development studi...

Including ex-Assassin's Creed narrative director.  Updated on 5 May 2021 The list notably includes Corey May, who like Raymond once helped define the early Assassin's Creed series. May served as scriptwriter, lead writer and then narrative director on numerous Assassin's Creed games over the course of a 12-year span, and worked with Raymond on the series' first couple of entries. At Stadia, May served as its head of creative services. He's joined at Haven by former Stadia general manager Sebastien Puel - another high profile hire. At least four more forme...

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan says that PlayStation 5 will have more exclusives than any previous console generation of PlayStation. Speaking with Japanese publication Nikkei (via VGC translation), Ryan explained that Sony has already put in the effort to ensure more first-party releases going forward. “We have been quietly but steadily investing in high-quality games for PlayStation, and we will make sure that the PS5 generation will have more dedicated software than ever before,” Ryan said. He additionally explained that adding more studios to its PlayStation family is not...

“I would just stand there and watch the makeup artists mesmerized," said Guerra, now a Larchmont-based celebrity hair and makeup artist. "I was just taking it all in and observing and trying to learn and looking at their technique,"  he said.   "I knew this was the world that I wanted to be in. I felt like I belonged here.” Fast forward 13 years and Guerra now has a roster of celebrity clients: from music artists Wyclef Jean and Young M.A to sports stars Cris Carter, Rob Gronkowski and Oscar De LaHoya to television personalities such as Bethenny Frankel and Dr. Drew.

Burned by Stadia screwups, Jade Raymond finds PlayStation far more welcoming Eric Abent - Mar 16, 2021, 2:57pm CDT It’s been a rollercoaster couple of months for games industry veteran Jade Raymond. At the beginning of February, Raymond announced her departure from Google after Stadia announced that it would be halting its first-party gaming efforts to instead focus on the streaming side of its business. Raymond had been working at Google since March 2019, heading up projects that ultimately never saw the light of day. Following her departure from Google, it appears that ...