Retro Studio hires more big named devs

#21 Soul

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 12:22 PM

Lol this was posted on April Fools.

#22 AndyG

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 01:04 AM

Hopefully Retro become the next Rare, ahhhhhhh the good all days of Rare.

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#23 Joshua

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 01:43 AM

man, is anyone else sort of disappointed about the timing on this, though? I was desperately hoping that Retro would have something spectacular ready for the system's launch... this seems like team-building, which is awesome for the future, but sheds some doubt on the state of Retro's current activity. I sure hope that a core team, at least, has been diligently plugging away at an epic masterpiece for the last few years...

Wouldn't you rather let them take their time though? If Retro is forging a high-end title, they are going to need all the time they can get.

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#24 Crackkat

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 02:10 AM

man, is anyone else sort of disappointed about the timing on this, though? I was desperately hoping that Retro would have something spectacular ready for the system's launch... this seems like team-building, which is awesome for the future, but sheds some doubt on the state of Retro's current activity. I sure hope that a core team, at least, has been diligently plugging away at an epic masterpiece for the last few years...

i bet you anything retro has finished/nearly finished their first wii u title and have hired all these guys for the next game

Edited by Crackkat, 13 April 2012 - 02:11 AM.

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#25 Stewox

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Posted 13 April 2012 - 05:05 AM

Retro studios hire's a Sound Designer Chris Carroll

Mere days ago.

http://www.linkedin....S_CMPY_FOL-nhre

UPD: Seems like he has worked previously with Retro on DKCR ... the activity meter mentioned him just 3 days ago but this may probably mean his contract ended and he moved on to work on something else in the meantime ... that's standard shuffling in the industry, they don't sit and wait for programmers to write new engine and game (except big companies like blizzard that have tons of work have the core crews permanent - this expands the character and the soul of the games as well as the experience with the brand-franchises, they focus on a specifics and can have more time to improve on it)

Edited by Stewox, 13 April 2012 - 05:10 AM.