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Report: Clint Hocking Departs Amazon Game Studios
Clint Hocking has departed Amazon Game Studios after 16 months with the company. Hocking joined the company shortly after the announcement of the Amazon Fire TV, an Android-powered set-top box that also plays games.
IGN broke the news of Hocking’s departure earlier this afternoon. Prior to joining Amazon, he was the creative director on Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. After leaving Ubisoft in 2010, Hocking spent time at LucasArts and Valve, working on an unannounced project at the former. No details are available on what he was doing at Valve.
Hocking joined Amazon alongside Kim Swift in April 2014. We've reached out to Hocking for comment and will update should he respond.
[Source: IGN]
Our Take
With his Ubisoft roots, it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if he joined fellow alum Jade Raymond at EA's Motive in Montreal. It would be a good fit, and give him a solid chance at getting his first game out the door since 2008. If he's headed back to Montreal, he could also be ;and at Warner Bros., which has been quiet post-Arkham Origins.
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