Sony Online Entertainment has acquired the assets of Sigil Games Online.
The President of SOE has said he will be bringing over 50 Sigil employees to support and grow the Vanguard MMORPG game. Brad McQuaid will be kept-on as creative advisor for the game. Dave Gilbertson will manage the Sigil Carlsbad office and the game itself.
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Headquartered in Poland, Elsewhere Entertainment — an all-new internal studio at Activision — is working on a new “narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise.” Elsewhere includes developers credited on The Last of Us, Uncharted, Destiny, Cyberpunk, and more. Activision’s new studio announcement comes just a week after its parent company, Microsoft, closed three Bethesda studios. It also follows job postings about a new Activision IP.
The game industry confuses, closing down proven studios only open a new studio?
I think this is just a publicity stunt and that this studio never actually produces a game. Someone at Microsoft was like were getting cooked in the media after they closed these studios and they came up with a plan to create some dummy studio someplace outside of the reach of the English speaking presses reach to distract people.
"Oh hey we're not closing studios we're actually creating studios"
And of course what are they working on... the type of game that gets the most popular public perception a narrative driven story based game... ya know not the thing Activision and Microsoft are known for.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
*cancels subscription.* they're going to ruin the potential like the did eq, swg... not happy about this.
U play it?
To me Vanguard has never been a great game.
Vanguard is Vanboring!
I think Sony made this move for the future not because of the Vanguard. Sony compared to Xbox is weak on Online gaming experience so they are looking into future and are trying to gain some strength.
Is this wright move? Only time will tell