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Former Xbox and EA executive Peter Moore has revealed he has rejoined the games industry, taking a position at Unity.

Moore noted on Twitter that he will join game engine development company Unity as its Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sports & Live Entertainment.

Hardly the biggest news of the day, but I’m delighted to announce that I’ve joined the incredibly-talented team at @unity3d as SVP and GM of Sports & Live Entertainment. Delighted to be reunited with so many industry friends as we work on some really cool stuff. More to come…

— Peter Moore (@PeterMooreLFC) January

In an interview with New Zealand’s 1 News, Valve boss Gabe Newell has said that multiple games are in development at the studio, and are waiting to be announced.

The Valve co-founder has been staying in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic after taking a vacation there following the launch of Half-Life: Alyx.

“We definitely have games in development that we’re going to be announcing — it’s fun to ship games,” Newell said when asked about future games coming out of Valve. Valve has developed – and subsequently cancelled – a lot of games in the past (including several

Sony Santa Monica’s unannounced second project looks like it’s still in the works, according to a job listing for an Art Director position at the studio.

A tweet from the official Sony Santa Monica account (below) notes that the studio is “seeking an experienced Art Director for the development of a new unannounced title”. There’s not much else to go on in the job listing itself, beyond the fact that it’s aiming to be a “genre-defining” game, and that it will involve “characters and creatures”.

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Takaya Imamura, the Nintendo artist and designer who gave us characters like Captain Falcon and Fox McCloud and more – not to mention the name and visual identity of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – has retired from the company.

As reported by Kotaku, Imamura announced that it was his last day working at Nintendo on his Facebook page, after 32 years with the company.

“This is my last day going to work. I took a selfie with the empty office. I guess I won’t be coming in here anymore. As you’d expect, I’ll miss it,” Kotaku’s

Psyonix has brought us many strange crossovers within Rocket League these past five years – sometimes quite literally – but an extreme sports organisation wouldn’t be the first thing that comes to mind. Having worked with the Summer X Games back in 2017, that collaboration is set to continue and a new tie-in event has just been announced for the Winter X Games in Aspen.

As part of the Rocket League Championship Series: Season X, Psyonix’s eSports league will now include the RLCS X Games: North American Regional, taking place on January 23-24 and January 30-31. Viewable via YouTube

Drodo and Dragonest, the creators of  MOBA spin-off Auto Chess, has revealed it is creating a MOBA game of its own, similar to League of Legends and Dota 2.

Announced in a tweet, Drodo’s MOBA approach appears to be fairly conventional of the genre, but it will feature some refinements such as the ability to destroy objects such as trees on the map, adding an extra layer of micro-level tactics to the game.

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