Back in April, we reported three key staffers at Retro Studios had vacated their offices and turned in their letters of resignation. These three individuals were design director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller and technology engineer Jack Mathews. Speculation was the three left to start their own company. Well, that's what happened.
The three have announced their new company, Armature Studio, has signed a "long-term, exclusive" publishing deal with games giant Electronic Arts. Armature and EA were both, obviously, excited about the move. "We are very excited about trying to rethink how games are developed for this generation of consoles, and our partners at EA have been nothing but supportive in this pursuit," said Pacini. "What really gets me going is that now, no platform is off limits. That is just something we didn't have the ability to do before." "I can't begin to describe how thrilled I am to be working with the talented team that created such an amazingly well-crafted series of games," said Louis Castle of EA, whom would be acting executive producer on the future Armature games.
With Retro Studios making such wonderful games on Nintendo hardware, it would appear these three key players aren't going to be favoring the Wii, sadly. Pacini really wants to see what the other consoles are about, commenting that "now, no platform is off limits. That is just something we didn't have the ability to do before."
[Via Joystiq]
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Posted: Sep 16th 2008 6:35PM (Unverified) said
Let's hope this doesn't have an impact on the upcoming quality Wii titles. Oh wait, there are almost none. I hope some new talented devs emerge (High Voltage Software anyone?) pretty soon to show that the Wii can actually do something. The Gamecube was stunning at it's time and even though the Wii is obviously outgunned I still feel a little disappointed by the lack of effort put into creating a wortwhile gaming experience on the platform. I whole heartedly enjoyed Metroid Prime 3 and I can only hope that there will be something comparable in the future.
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Posted: Sep 16th 2008 7:08PM Mr Khan said
You're too pessimistic these days
You know what i do when i'm in a bad mood? Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUXZlatV6Y
(not a rickroll, i swear up and down)
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You know what i do when i'm in a bad mood? Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUXZlatV6Y
(not a rickroll, i swear up and down)
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 7:13PM (Unverified) said
Thanks but I like the Animaniacs better ;)
There are some good titles coming alright The Conduit, Disaster Day of Crisis, de Blob, Cursed Mountain. All good looking stuff but what I'm missing is a mind blowing reminder what the Wii actually is. Something like RE4 was for the Gamecube graphics standard. I'm still confident something like this will show up at some point, but I'm not exactly sure if that will be before the next console cycle or a slow blissful death like the Dreamcast.
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There are some good titles coming alright The Conduit, Disaster Day of Crisis, de Blob, Cursed Mountain. All good looking stuff but what I'm missing is a mind blowing reminder what the Wii actually is. Something like RE4 was for the Gamecube graphics standard. I'm still confident something like this will show up at some point, but I'm not exactly sure if that will be before the next console cycle or a slow blissful death like the Dreamcast.
Posted: Sep 16th 2008 9:19PM (Unverified) said
LOL omg khan you still showing that vid? still a classic lol
quite frankly, i dont think amasutra know what they have gotten themselves into with EA. that company churns games out, and amasutra will probably end up with rushed games instead of quality titles (the fanboy in me is praying that will happen :P), so yeah, amasutra may be to EA what Rare is to microsoft, a slave dev team who wont get enough time to perfect their titles
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quite frankly, i dont think amasutra know what they have gotten themselves into with EA. that company churns games out, and amasutra will probably end up with rushed games instead of quality titles (the fanboy in me is praying that will happen :P), so yeah, amasutra may be to EA what Rare is to microsoft, a slave dev team who wont get enough time to perfect their titles
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