Mafia three builders Hangar 13 are engaged on an unannounced triple-A sport for 2K, and so they’ve added a brand new studio in Brighton, UK, to assist with the undertaking.
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The new UK workplace will probably be headed by Nick Baynes, who has 25 years of video games business expertise and was previously at Split/Second developer Black Rock Studio – which was additionally based mostly in Brighton till it closed in 2011. Hangar 13’s present Vice President of Development Andy Wilson was additionally beforehand at Black Rock.
Baynes says, “the UK has some of the most talented game developers in the world and I couldn’t be more excited to work with Andy again to build a world class team in Brighton and help forge the future of Hangar 13.”
Haden Blackman, international studio head of Hangar 13, provides, “we’re extremely excited to welcome Nick and the Brighton workforce into our rising Hangar 13 household. The new workplace permits us to faucet into the wealthy sport growth expertise pool all through the United Kingdom and Europe and can result in higher, extra various video games that resonate with the widest potential viewers.”
All 4 Hangar 13 studios at the moment are engaged on an unannounced triple-A sport for 2K, which can be a new IP and not Mafia 4, however in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz Andy Wilson means that the groups will have the ability to work on their very own initiatives too. “We do not wish to take Brighton and instantly give them this enormous scary problem, however we anticipate, over time, that they will be incubating initiatives themselves. Hangar 13 has a powerful tradition of incubation of recent concepts. At anyone time we do not simply give attention to one monolithic undertaking. We’re branching out past that.”
This growth comes regardless of the information in February that Hangar 13 was hit with major layoffs, which 2K known as a “large proportion of Hangar 13’s staff.” At the time they prompt that the workers reductions had been “in order to ensure that the studio’s resources are properly aligned with its long-term development plans”.
A new Bioshock is supposedly in development “next door” to Hangar 13, though for the time being the Mafia three builders don’t appear to be engaged on that individual sport.
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