Netflix’s gaming division started out with simpler mobile devices, but the company has never hidden its ambitions. create complex and expensive AAA games. So the streaming giant founded a new studio in Los Angeles late last year that, led by former Overwatch producer and Blizzard VP Chucko Sonny, will be building a brand new AAA game for PC.
Next piece of the puzzle Joseph Staten. The Halo veteran has joined Netflix Games as the creative director of some mysterious original AAA multi-platform game. But we don’t know if this is the team that Sonny started building last year.
“There is nothing in my work that I love more than collaborating with other people to create worlds filled with iconic characters, deep mysteries and endless adventures.” Staten cryptically tweeted announcing the move to Netflix Games. Fans hope for very strange things.
So today I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined @Netflix Games as creative director of a brand new AAA multi-platform game and original intellectual property. Let’s go to! 2/2
— Joseph Staten (@joestaten) April 17, 2023
We learned about Stein’s departure from Microsoft two weeks ago. Halo Infinite creative director, writer and cinematographer for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3 has resigned from his position at the studio. 343 industries already in January of this year, but returned to his previous position in the publishing division Xbox Game Studios. However, he only stayed there for a few months.
Source: MicrosoftMajor layoffs at Microsoft affected the creators of Halo, Gears of War and Starfield
Netflix launches games for its subscribers android And iOS offer at the end of 2021. This year the company plans to release 40 games. This will increase the total number of titles to 95 games. On top of that, he’s also betting on licenses, most recently announcing the production of a Gears of War feature film. The screenplay for Dune will be written by Oscar nominee Jon Spaites. Netflix is also planning projects related to Tomb Raider, The Division, Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed or Beyond Good & Evil.
It looks like it from the outside 343 Industries reshuffles its team. According to available information, he also had to leave the studio. Frank O’Connor. On his LinkedIn profile, he states that he left Microsoft in April of this year, although the company has yet to announce anything. He has been creative director of the Halo brand for almost 20 years. Multiplayer creative director left in December Tom French and already in September of last year, the founder and head of 343 said goodbye due to health problems in the family Bonnie Ross.
Source :Indian TV
