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Amy Hennig has departed Electronic Arts, telling Eurogamer that she officially left the company (and her role as creative director on EA Vancouver’s unnamed Star Wars game) in January.

Alissa McAloon, Publisher

June 28, 2018

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Uncharted creator Amy Hennig has departed Electronic Arts, telling Eurogamer that she officially left the company (and her role as creative director on EA Vancouver’s unnamed Star Wars game) in January. 

Hennig notes that she is instead turning her attentions towards independent development. She notably first joined EA in 2014 by signing on with the company's now-shuttered Visceral Games studio and moved to EA Vancouver when Visceral was shut down last year.

“I haven't been in, but look - I get along with all those people,” Hennig told Eurogamer at the Gamelab conference in Barcelona. “I consider even the guys on the exec team friends. But it made it awkward because it was like, 'I never got the chance to announce that I'm not at EA so I need to just pull off that band-aid at some point - but also had nothing to announce. It makes it sound like I just went home! But I'm doing all this stuff, working on all kinds of things.”

In regards to her independent development efforts, Hennig notes she’s interested in keeping things small, though her interest has been piqued by virtual reality.

“I'm hoping to bring some people on board, I would love to have a little company of about six to eight people, 15 at the most, and do some more projects, do some VR stuff - I'm consulting with some VR companies and doing a ton of research because I haven't played a lot to immerse myself in it.”

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Alissa McAloon

Publisher, GameDeveloper.com

As the Publisher of Game Developer, Alissa McAloon brings a decade of experience in the video game industry and media. When not working in the world of B2B game journalism, Alissa enjoys spending her time in the worlds of immersive sandbox games or dabbling in the occasional TTRPG.

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