Matt Casamassina, a veteran editor for IGN who has long covered the Nintendo beat, has taken a job at Apple. What makes this move particularly interesting is what he’ll be doing: He’s “global editorial games manager” of the App Store – he and his team will be hand-picking games content to feature on the App Store, for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone.

Apple hires longtime IGN Nintendo Editor [Industrygamers]