Google has a new vice president. The position was given to the notorious Jade Raymond, the developer of the first parts of Assassin’s Creed, the founder of EA Motive and Ubisoft Toronto studios.

The official reason is “the desire to make a new breakthrough.”

Mikhail Kuzmin, co-founder of the podcast “How Games are Made” and head of business development at HeroCraft, announced his transition to the position of marketing director at tinyBuild publishing house, known for launching games such as Punch Club and Hello Neighbor.

Former Ubisoft executive producer Stefan Delacroix (Stéphane Decroix) has been appointed head of game development at the Swedish company Starbreeze. At Ubisoft, Delacroix worked on the Watch Dogs franchise, and at Starbreeze he will be responsible for the development of The Walking Dead, Crossfire, Payday and other titles.

Awem Games, founded in Mogilev, known for the three-in-a-row Cradle of Empires, received a business development director. He became 32-year-old Timofey Fadeev, who was previously responsible for a similar area in the advertising startup BuzzGuru and the Chinese studio IGG, known for games such as Castle Clash and Lords Mobile.

ZeptoLab, based in Russia, has announced a reshuffle in the staff. The position of the head of the publishing direction in the company was taken by Dylan Tredrea, who was previously responsible for product management at Rovio. Mike Sviblov, who held his position, remains on staff as a consultant for the direction.

President and representative Director of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima (Tatsumi Kimishima) announced his imminent retirement. The head of the Japanese company will leave his post on June 28.

Square Enix announced a personnel reorganization of the board of directors. The new board includes developers who participated in the creation of a number of flagship tiles of the company.

The creator of the St. Petersburg office of Nival, Peter Prokhorenko, now works at Alternativa Games (formerly AlternativaPlatform). He became the product director of a company known for the MMO action movie “Tanks Online”.

Call of Duty: WWII development managers Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield have left Sledgehammer Games studio for executive positions at Activision. Schofield and Condrey founded Sledgehammer in 2009.

In the management of the Swedish game publisher Paradox Interactive, there has been a castling. Paradox CEO Frederic Wester will head the company’s board of directors, and his post will be taken by board member Ebba Ljugerud. Wester has been the head of Paradox since 2009.

Three veterans of the gaming industry joined the British studio Jagex, which created one of the oldest role—playing MMO – Runescape. The staff of Jagex includes Ben Clarke, Steven Tarry and Steve Wilson.

Game designer and one of the creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Yuji Naka has moved to Square Enix. Naka announced this on his Twitter.

Alexander Bogdanov, who led the St. Petersburg studio Game Insight and Nord Quantum, became the CEO of Minsk-based Belka Games, the developer of the Watchmaker.

David Helgason, co-founder of Unity Technologies, joined the board of directors of Lockwood Publishing, known for the Avakin Life social simulator for both iOS and Android.

Big Huge Games Studio has hired former Epic Games creative Director Steve Superville and ex-Zynga COO Judith Hoffman.

The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, was promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft and became one of the 16 top managers of the company.

Pete Hawley has been appointed CEO of Telltale Games Studio. For the last three years, he has served as vice president and general manager of the gaming direction at Zynga mobile publishing house.

Sergey Babaev, Managing Partner, announced his new position DTF.ru and former vice president of strategy at Nekki. He took the place of vice-president of the Cyprus team Cubic Games.