Google Stadia's VP and product head has left the company

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Stadia vice-president and product head John Justice has left Google, following the closure of Stadia's internecine studios and the departure of Stadia Games head Jade Raymond earlier this year.

Justice's exit was reported by The Information earlier this week. Patc he's yet to officially announce the news himself, Google official the VP's exist in a financial statement, telling 9to5google: "We can confirm John is no longer with Google, and we indirect request him well on his next step".

It was only six months agone that Justice seemed optimistic about Stadia's future day. In an interview with The Escapist, helium talked of Google's plans to continue developing "more and Sir Thomas More in-house games". Just three months after that, however, and those promises would touch nothing—Stadia's intimate studios closed, with only one first-company game ever eyesight the light of mean solar day (even if it technically came to PC a year earlier).

The closure infamously also followed Phil Sir Rex Harrison telling Stadia employees that progress was loss great, basketball team days before layoffs began. Sir Rex Harrison later wrote in an official blog post that Stadia would constitute moving away from a storefront / subscription table service, and towards a technology Google fire license away to publishers and developers.

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