Amazon recruits Clint Hocking and Kim Swift as senior designers

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Amazon's really pushing its way into the video game space with the recent announcement of its Android-based Fire TV console and now it's been confirmed that Far Cry 2 lead Clint Hocking and Portal designer Kim Swift have joined the company that was once primarily an online bookstore.
Hocking and Swift have both confirmed the news on their LinkedIn pages where they're both credit as senior designers. Hocking started in February, while Swift only officially joined in April.
Swift was previously at Airtight games where she made the first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum and the Ouya-exclusive viking-meets-funk rhythm/action game Soul Fjord.
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