Key World of Warcraft designer 'Ghostcrawler' has jumped ship to Riot Games

Newsbrief: Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street, previously lead systems designer on Blizzard's behemoth MMO World of Warcraft, has switched teams after leaving the company late last year. Street is now lead game designer at League of Legends studio Riot Games, according to his LinkedIn profile, while his Facebook profile suggests that he joined Riot last month. The industry veteran has previously worked as lead game designer at Age of Empires III creator Ensemble Studios for nearly a decade, and had been at Blizzard for six years at the time of his departure.