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Rocksteady Co-Founders Establish New Studio Named Hundred Star Games

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Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker, the co-founders of Rocksteady, have recently revealed the establishment of a fresh game development studio named Hundred Star Games. This London-based studio is set to make waves in the industry. They have reportedly assembled a team of around 25 developers and have plans to grow to a solid 100 individuals, consisting of experienced industry professionals and promising newcomers. It seems that their focus is on creating something fresh and innovative.

According to a report from Polygon, Hill and Walker have been identified as directors of Hundred Star Games on the corporate data website Endole. Polygon reports that several lead developers and former Rocksteady employees at the London-based Arkham studio have already departed to explore the offerings of this new venture.

The company was established on February 21, 2023, and is currently in the process of hiring. Hundred Star Games is a video game start-up based in East London. They have also been featured on the UK workplace rating site, Great Places to Work. We strive to assemble a tight-knit group of 100 experienced professionals and up-and-coming talents who are dedicated to developing innovative gaming experiences that ignite the imagination and engage players on a global scale.

In October 2022, Hill and Walker departed from Rocksteady during the development of the highly anticipated Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, citing their desire to embark on a new gaming endeavor. The game was said to be “almost complete” at that time, and, unless there is a last-minute delay, it is scheduled to release on January 30th on PS5.

Are you eagerly anticipating the collaboration between Hill and Walker as they embark on their new studio venture? Will game developers follow in Rocksteady’s footsteps or venture into uncharted territory? Feel free to share your predictions in the comments section below.

 

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Ubisoft says that future Assassin’s Creed games will need more time to be made

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As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.

Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”

You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.

 

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You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP on PS5

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You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.

The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.

The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.

The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.

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This Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 zombies trailer is way too expensive

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Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.

For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”

Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.

Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.

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