The former EA, Assassin's Creed Boss joins Google before the Big Gaming unveiling

Veteran of the video game industry, Jade Raymond, who produced the first Assassin's Creed before joining EA where she worked on Star Wars, landed a new job at Google.

Raymond announced today on Twitter that she was working at Google as a vice president. That's all she had to say on the subject. So we do not know exactly what she does at Google.

Google operates a gaming company with its Project Stream technology that is expected to be officially unveiled at the gaming developer conference. Raymond would be at least Google's second-leading gaming rookie, after former PlayStation and Xbox boss Phil Harrison, who joined Google as vice president in January 2018.

In his last position at EA, Raymond was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Motive Studios Group. As such, Raymond was responsible for leading a new business unit and studio team focused on creating new intellectual property and action games. She was also responsible for the strategy of EA's new EA games. She left EA in October 2018.

Many senior executives from the video game industry have congratulated Raymond for his move to Google. Xbox boss Shannon Loftis said Google is lucky to have Raymond, while the boss of Capybara Games, Nathan Vella, enthusiastically, "Well done, it's rad."

As for Google's GDC event, the company plans to unveil its "vision for the future of the game" – which could be related to streaming. In 2018, Google partnered with Ubisoft to test its Project Stream technology allowing Assassin's Creed Odyssey to be playable directly via a Google Chrome browser.

To learn more about games in the cloud, check out the GameSpot guide that explains what cloudplay is and how it might upset the industry.

In other news, recent rumors have circulated about Google 's so – called "Yeti Project", which would be its own point of view on the home console. It would focus on streaming and could even have its own exclusive games, but the price and details are unknown.