Google’s chief game designer has stepped down from his position, suggesting that the company currently has little interest in making its own video games. Noah Falstein announced his resignation in a post on his own blog, stating that the “opportunity to actually build the big, consequential games” that he had been hired to help create had “failed to materialize.”

Falstein took the role four years ago, but his job change wasn’t spotted until a month later, when TechCrunch noticed a change on his LinkedIn page. Google didn’t publicly announce his appointment, nor specify exactly what its chief game designer would be working on within the company.

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