Wei Yue, who used to work as the Esports Director at Ubisoft Montréal, has now joined Amazon Games. He will be in charge of competitions and esports there. Before this, he worked at Ubisoft for more than four years, where he looked after the esports program for Rainbow Six Siege. In his new role, he will help shape the competitive side of an upcoming game from Amazon Games.
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Esports Director Joins Amazon Games: New Moves in the Gaming Industry
Wei Yue shared the news on LinkedIn on August 14th, about a month after leaving Ubisoft Montréal. Before, he was the Esports Director at Ubisoft, where he looked after competitive events and strategies for the game Rainbow Six Siege.
Recently, in December 2022, he introduced a big update to the Rainbow Six Siege esports scene. This update included a new global competition and a partnership with a tournament organizer called BLAST.
Before working at Ubisoft, Wei Yue spent over eight years at Activision Blizzard. He started by helping customers in 2010, and then he began managing esports programs in 2015. He was in charge of esports activities for a game called Hearthstone.
Amazon Games is a video game company owned by Amazon, and it started in 2012. At first, they made games for mobile devices, like phones and tablets, but later they started making games for computers too.
One of their popular games is called New World, which came out in 2021. They also released another game called Lost Ark in 2022. Wei Yue, with his more than 10 years of experience, is now joining Amazon Games to help make their new esports games better.
He said, “I’m really excited to be a part of this and to help make the competitive gaming part of the games even better.”
Amazon Games is working on several new games that people can play together, but it’s not clear which game Wei Yue will be working on yet.
Wei Yue moving to Amazon Games is not the only big change in the gaming world recently. In July, Josh Kingett, who started X7, joined a company called DotX Talent to help with their esports work. Also, another person named Ben Goldhaber joined GGWP, a company that helps with game moderation and marketing.
