Now here’s something that flew over our heads, utterly and completely. Mohit Anand has stepped down from his status as Microsoft India’s Country Manager for Entertainment and Devices Division, due to some, at least according to VARIndia’s report, “internal issues”.

Speaking exclusively to VARIndia, Mohit Anand said, “The news is true that I have quit Microsoft. However, I would not be able to comment where I would be joining next.”

Egads, man! The last time I met Mohit in person was at the Mass Effect launch party, and was even a bit surprised he didn’t show up at Nikhill’s Pizza Whore session (though I was later told that he had a family wedding to attend to). Still, sucks to know he’s gone. For what it was worth, Mohit was a pretty vocal guy. Barring the BioShock incident, the dude was fairly open to whatever questions we had to throw out. Hopefully, Microsoft India themselves will issue an official statement on this matter, maybe even throw some insight on the whole “internal issues” remark. I mean, sure, Mohit isn’t much of a Halo-player (especially if all he does is run over people in the Mongoose), and yeah, there was that time he shot the Arbiter during the Halo 3 Pre-Launch Party’s live demonstration of the single-player campaign. But he does fancy himself an Age of Empires nut! No doubt, in my eyes, does this count for something.

Thanks to Helios for the scoop, and Singh for the Photoshop job on the Mohit Anand Faceplate. There’s a story behind that pic actually, but I think we’ll save that for some other time.

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• Crazy Says:
  March 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Love me hate me…whatever…but I liked this guy…

• Crazy Says:
  March 5th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

  Another source explains a little more-

  http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php?file=story&id=5251

• Arachnid Says:
  March 6th, 2008 at 1:20 am

  Not 100% accurate. I spoke to him today and a few things differ. Update to follow soon. Watch for the next post in a few hours.

• Orpheus Says:
  March 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  Newb question: What BioShock incident?

• LordHawHaw Says:
  April 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  Good Riddance