Tatsumi Oga
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Well that's a damn shame. Rise of the Tomb Raider was a damn fine game. I guess it's just like Rockstar's Leslie Benzies leaving the company, we'll have to wait and see what kind of impact it will have on their future games.
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Brian Horton (Game Director) leaves Crystal Dynamics, [UPDATE: Joins Infinity Ward]
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king grimlock
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Triggerhappytel
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I was going to say that I don't think Dr. Seuss is particularly well known outside of North America.
JehutyRunner
Banned
The other guy, Darrell Gallagher, was formerly the studio head, not a lead dev. As far as he's concerned, he doesn't factor into where possibly Horton would go next (unless he actually is going to set up a new studio, but I doubt that).
As for where Horton could actually go: I do echo the Naughty Dog sentiment. That second team needs to get going again following the Hennig and Richmond departures in 2014 now UC4's coming to an end with its development. Have Straley and Druckmann work on TLOU2 whilst Horton and whoever as creative director (if I had to guess who'd assume that role post UC4, Josh Scherr?) on a new IP now ND will be done with Uncharted.
Go there. He has the talent.
SneakersSO
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Two CD studio heads are gone after RoTR 2 months within its launch... I'm just gonna put it on the table and call it now - Brian Horton & Darrell Gallagher will have formed a new studio under MS within the year.
hydrophilic attack
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Getting Druckmann'd seems to be a fitting end after making those Uncharted clones ;p
Gallagher is at Activision
SneakersSO
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?
I was looking forward to doing a thread bump in a year when news broke. Good on Gallagher though! Glad he landed quickly on his feet.
John Wick
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They probably made the deal with MS for exclusivity and approached SE with it
Triggerhappytel
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Is this for real? What position has he taken? With which studio?
Dance Inferno
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I... How is this possible?
Steverulez
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No-one specific
Senior Vice President, Head of Development
Activision
January 2016 Present (1 month) Santa Monica
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrell-gallagher-278914
SEGAvangelist
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MS needs to build a new studio for this guy. Phil said he wanted an Uncharted game. This is his chance.
His LinkedIn profile says he's Senior VP, Head of Development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrell-gallagher-278914
EDIT: Beaten.
Lactose_Intolerant
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People don't want to make the same games over and over again?
Chobel
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Goddamn! That fast?
Steverulez
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He probably had it lined up before he left (and was why he left, perhaps)
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Or Square Enix wasn't happy with how it all turned out, maybe expected a lot more sales? I do remember the crazy sales they expected from TR 2013, Hitman Absolution and Sleeping Dogs. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the case yet again. What about this all makes you think they will work under MS?
wapplew
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DirtyLarry
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For those of us not in the know can anyone explain the inside joke of this comment?
travisbickle
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Crystal Dynamic's office = tomb
How do you know this has anything to do with that?
He is at Infinity Ward
Well that was unexpected. Next CoD is third person action adventure game confirmed!!! XD
reptilescorpio
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He is at Infinity Ward
Interesting he went to an art director role at an Activision company, thanks for the update!
ashecitism
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So both Gallagher and Horton went to Acti.
tattooed_dwarf
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Their latest game just released and project is finished. Normal time for people to move around on any industry.
I know you are joking, but he is only the art director at IW.
The grunts, yes, but usually not the top people.
Nightengale
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Game Director. Ex-343.
Art Director. Ex-Crystal Dynamics.
Design Director. Ex-Naughty Dog.
Narrative Director. Ex-Naughty Dog.
=P
Nightengale
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With the exception of Jesse Synder, who's currently the game director of IW ( game designer at CoD : World at War, Halo 4, CoD : Ghost, and currently 2016 CoD), the other creative leads of IW (art, design, and story) were folks who worked on Uncharted, TLoU and Tomb Raider.
Which is the funny part of the whole thing.
That's not a bad list at all. Hope it's not just all for a new COD though.
Nightengale
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Because there aren't any Nintendo studios in the west besides Retro and it's located in Texas iirc while most American studios are in cali.
Because Nintendo keeps promising to create more new games at the start of each new generation since the year 2000, but then forgets to build new and larger studios. It's a tragic case of bad memory, but you can't fault them for it. They are very old.
Triggerhappytel
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Come on dude, I know you're not a fan of MS but we have no reason to think these two members of staff leaving have anything to do with the RotTR exclusivity. Big projects wrap up, and people often leave thereafter. This happens all the time.
Nightengale
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If anything, this news is more about IW than anything else.
IW has gone through significant changes in the past year. Merging with Neversoft to become a larger studio, and the aggressive high level hires they've made show that they've really making a large investment onto themselves.
People give IW a lot of shit for Ghost, and deservedly so, but all the subtle nudges in regards to the amount of talent they've hired/changes they've made makes me more interested about 2016's CoD than last year's.