Graeme Devine Leaves id Software

Thanks to Gamasutra.com for their news report (registration required) indicating that Graeme Devine has left id Software for Microsoft-owned Ensemble, the developers of the Age Of Empires series. The article elaborates: "Devine's career covers a substantial swath of videogame history, starting with porting games such as Pole Position for Atari while still in high school in the U.K. in the early 1980s. He later co-founded Trilobyte, where he was central to the development of the seminal CD-ROM title The 7th Guest and its follow-up, The 11th Hour. Most recently Devine was working on Doom 3 for id, in roles ranging from project manager to designer to programmer." Further details are as yet unavailable, but the piece suggests "..in his new role at Ensemble, Devine will be focusing primarily on game design."

Comments

Throws fist up in the air and says

[The Analog Kid]

...damn, lost another one to the enemy.

Give me a break

[lidocaineus]

Nothing was lost. A good game developer left one studio and joined another one, which, I might add, also makes good games. Simply because it has a "Microsoft" banner under it doesn't mean the games coming out of it are going to be unplayable. In fact, that's what we all want, right? Good games? Who cares where they come from.

Grow up.