While many other development studios are withering beneath the sweltering heat of the recession, it seems at least one studio is blossoming -- Ruffian Games, founded earlier this year by a number of former Fable II, Crackdown and GTA devs, recently announced that it had bolstered its staff with 15 new recruits.
This is great news for the unorthodoxly expanding studio (and for the recently employed developers), but we still don't know what Ruffian is working on. Apparently, this fact bothers them as much as it bothers us -- studio head Gaz Liddon said, "Now we're in full production, we're itching to share the fantastic work these guys have been producing," adding that he hoped said sharing "won't be too far away." We hope so too, as our attention span is pretty limited as far as -- Hey, a butterfly! Neat!
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Posted: May 22nd 2009 3:51PM UK31337 said
Crackdown 2 is definitely coming at some point. You could tell by the reaction, choice of words and the body language of the Realtime Worlds studio manager who was their rep at a trade conference I went to in Dundee (the home city of RW and Ruffian) when he was asked whether or not they would ever get round to making Crackdown 2. If it's RW that are working on it or Ruffian are working on it instead and he just knows some stuff about it remains to be seen.
He did say that Realtime Worlds have an unannounced project they would hopefully be able to talk about in maybe a year's time, so it could be that.
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He did say that Realtime Worlds have an unannounced project they would hopefully be able to talk about in maybe a year's time, so it could be that.
Posted: May 22nd 2009 4:13PM (Unverified) said
that studio manger has a name you know, the delightful Mr McDonald
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Posted: May 22nd 2009 5:15PM ch3burashka said
Those guys should visit a doctor. I had an itch once. Ended with an amputated testicle.
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