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Want To Know What Respawn Is Working On? Don't Hold Your Breath
With the speed that things often move at in the games industry, it's easy to forget how much time and effort it takes for things to happen in the real world. For example, despite reporting on it heavily, I had almost forgotten that the crazy Infinity Ward drama - which involved a large number of IW employees (including its founders) leaving Activision to form a new studio - happened a mere six months ago. By now, many gamers are already eager to know what that new studio, Respawn Entertainment, is working on. Unfortunately, it looks like we may be waiting quite a bit longer.
In an interview with EA Partners general manager David DeMartini on Eurogamer, the Electronic Arts representative talked about the publisher's relationship with Respawn:
"It was really rewarding to present them with an opportunity which allowed them and their families to land on their feet, and for them to start building a new thing together and open a new chapter of their lives. The Activision part, we win some, they win some. It goes back and forth. I don't see it as some big competition."
Further in, he reminded excited gamers that the new studio started from nothing and, as such, won't be ready to reveal their first project for a while:
"I know everybody is going to say, 'Well what are they working on?' The thing everybody needs to remember is they were starting at absolute zero.
"This is two guys who really know what they're doing having to go find a place for the team, buy chairs and desks and furniture, find new technology from the ground up, and pull a team together. I need to get HR people. There are contracts. There are all kinds of things and administration that need to take place."
DeMartini admitted that the team has not yet settled on what their project for EA will be. "We're sitting there waiting for the smoke to come up and when it does we'll call you," he said. He also said there will be an even longer wait before they reveal Respawn's project than the reveal of the multiplatform game that Insomniac is working on with EA.
Since we'll be waiting for the foreseeable future, anyone up for blatant speculation with no basis in reality? What are you hoping that Respawn is working on?
[via Joystiq]
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