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  Nintendo dev leaves company, heads to Microsoft

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  112 days ago in funXgame videogame news on all games, all platforms · Authority: 5

  Filed under: News For those of you who keep track of developers and programmers like children keep track of baseball cards, this bit of news is going to be old hat to you. For the rest of the Nintendo loyal, prepare to light some torches and sharpen some pitchforks, because longtime programmer Colin Reed has bailed on Nintendo and taken up a position at Microsoft. Reed was with Nintendo for 11 years, working on such titles as Metroid Prime: Hunters and Pikmin. He now joins Microsoft’s Turn-10, an internal studio that is responsible for the Forza Motorsport line-up of games. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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  links for 2008-05-09

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