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Rare game director George Andreas departs for Sony Computer Entertainment

George Andreas (pictured above on the left), former Rare game director, has left Microsoft earlier in the month to jon Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Andreas had been with Rare since 1996, and has moved on to the role of creative director at SCEE in London.

Whilst at Rare, Andreas was involved some of their best work, like GoldenEye, Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark Zero and Viva Piñata.

Since being acquired by Microsoft, Andreas was lead on Kameo: Elements of Power, creative director for Kinect Sports on Xbox 360 and also played a big part of developing the Kinect peripheral.

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