Remember Black Tusk Studios, the artist formerly known as Microsoft Vancouver - a studio "dedicated to creating immersive, AAA games that push the limits of Microsoft's entertainment platforms"? The developer has no less than four new IPs on the go.
That's according to the LinkedIn resume of senior product manager/product planner, Jonathan Browne (cheers, VG247). Browne worked at Black Tusk in 2010, where he was "the primary product manager on four unannounced new IP" and has been a "key contributor to bringing these IP from the very early concept phase through green light to production."
Job listings suggest that one of those unannounced projects is an AAA multiplayer shooter, quite possibly a next gen "big new IP space shooter thing on the scale of a Gears or Halo" (or so sayeth the mighty Superannuation). We're all agog.
11 comments so far...
ridinglikesatan on 4 Feb '13 said:
Something that's always baffled me, why is with in square brackets?
CunningSmile on 4 Feb '13 said:
Square brackets normally means the reporter has changed the quote slightly to make more sense taken out of context. The most common is adding surnames when someone has been talking about a coworker or replacing "he" "she" or "them" with proper names.
OXM ETboy on 4 Feb '13 said:
What he said
FishyGinger on 4 Feb '13 said:
CunningSmile on 4 Feb '13 said:
OXM ETboy on 4 Feb '13 said:
Have you had a sex change op behind my back, Cunning?
CunningSmile on 4 Feb '13 said:
Not as far as I know <checks junk>
Nope, all still present and correct
Plamsa wing on 4 Feb '13 said:
By your standards.
FishyGinger on 4 Feb '13 said:
Is he not up to standard, Plasma?
jaymes420 on 4 Feb '13 said:
sounds exciting!, lets just hope they have the skill and creativity needed to create s GREAT IP,...., sci fi shooters are a dime a dozen, heres hoping these new games arent just the same old shooters that have been done to death,...we need new original titles, not the same old "play it safe" shooters, which have money and sales in mind before fun.
Decent_Jam on 4 Feb '13 said:
Considering it's a first party studio in particular, there's no guarantee the four IPs are all games. You could be looking at a game with a tie-in web series or something, or would that still count as the same IP if they were linked...I suppose so.
Anyway, you get my point, it's not called Black Tusk 'Game' Studios. I'm sure I had a half-decent idea when I came in...