Google's Chief Game Designer quits the company citing lack of opportunities

In a recent blog post, Falstein announced his departure from Google, saying that “the opportunity to actually build the big, consequential games that I had been hired to help create failed to materialize, even as the world market for games has continued to grow in size, diversity, and geographic reach.”
It isn't clear whether Falstein's creative endeavors were stifled in any way by Google, but it seems like the company has no interest in developing larger-scale gaming experiences, at least according to the developer.pok
“I’m particularly energized by the confluence of games, neuroscience, and VR. Before I came to Google I had the pleasure of working on a number of health and neuroscience game titles, and that field is now maturing, and I think about to come into its own both in terms of its benefits to humanity, and feasibility as a business,” Falstein goes on. “Related to that, I think the emotional connections possible in VR, most prominently shown in the empathy evoked by a sense of physical proximity and eye contact that no previous technology can match, is going to open up an entire new merging of movies, interaction, and games that may need a new name.”

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