Microsoft hired the co-creator of ‘Portal’ to plot games for the cloud

Microsoft has hired Kim Swift, more than seemingly handiest recognized as a co-creator of Portal, to oversee Xbox Sport Studios Publishing’s collaborations with honest studios on games constructed for the cloud. Swift is joining as senior director of cloud gaming after a stint at Stadia, the put she used to be game create director. 

Swift used to be a producer of Narbacular Plunge, which used to be released in 2005. Valve hired the personnel within the wait on of that game to assemble a non secular successor: Portal. Swift used to be the project lead on the traditional puzzle-platformer. She labored on the Left for Ineffective sequence sooner than transferring on to Airtight Video games (Quantum Conundrum) and later Amazon and EA Motive. 

Google shut down its inner Stadia game studios in February. Most of the personnel members like moved on to varied companies.

“Kim is going to plot a personnel centered on new experiences within the cloud, something that’s going to strengthen our mission of bringing our Xbox games to connect 3 billion gamers to play our games,” Xbox Sport Studios Publishing head Peter Wyse informed Polygon.

Microsoft needs to prevail within the worthy selection of gamers who need to not like, desire or need consoles or gaming PCs. It be constructing streaming sticks and desirable TV apps so folks can fetch admission to Xbox cloud gaming by device of Sport Pass without dear devoted hardware. So, it’s runt shock that Xbox is working on “cloud-native games,” as Wyse put it. Nonetheless, he added that “we don’t know exactly what that appears like this day, or what that even performs like,” so these games are seemingly reasonably some time away.