I believe this deserves its own thread outside of the Gears craze:
Thanks to Opus Angelorum and Loudninja for pointing it out, via Polygon
Disappointed.
UPD: Black Tusk was working on a new IP originally:
UPD2: Phil Spencer responds
UPD3: The mighty CBOAT weighs in:
Translation: Black Tusk is not that big. The spygame was real. Period. And it was good.
UPD4: Mod-verified new kid on the leaker block ntkrnl shares the codename:
Gears of War's new home, Black Tusk Studios, may come as a surprise to Xbox fans who watched Microsoft's press conference from E3 2013. It was there where Spencer teased a new project from Black Tusk, a sleek, stealthy action game with no name.
"The thing we showed at E3 last year, it was something that was done in Unreal and more of a concept piece," Spencer said, calling it "an asset" created by the team to get their creative juices flowing, not necessarily an in-development game.
"The studio has really been incubating different ideas over the past six to nine months on what they might work on," he said, "but the discussion with Epic obviously didn't start yesterday. We've been in this discussion for a while. The leadership team there has known for a while."
Thanks to Opus Angelorum and Loudninja for pointing it out, via Polygon
Disappointed.
UPD: Black Tusk was working on a new IP originally:
Not only was the game at E3 presented as a game, the studio was clearly working on an original IP:
Microsoft opens new video game studio in Vancouver:
Studio staff have an average of 12 years experience in triple-A games, the industry’s equivalent of Hollywood summer blockbuster movies — “big games, big teams, big budgets, long timelines,” said Crump.
“What that means is we are working on Microsoft’s next big entertainment franchise,” he said. “We’re not working on an existing franchise, we’re looking to build the next Halo here in Vancouver, for example, which is really exciting. We are building something from the ground up.”
“We have been officially green-lit by Microsoft executives to go ahead with the project that we’re on,” he said.
Spencer is caught in a pretty obvious damage control statement.
UPD2: Phil Spencer responds
XboxP3: @TheRealDoffen @Jahlvardravito You can imagine with something as big as Gears there is a lot for them to get their head around.
Steverulez: @xboxp3 So does that mean the new IP you showed a teaser of at E3 is still being made, or not?
XboxP3: @Steverulez Need to focus on Gears for now.
I still have no idea if its alive or not. Probably gone at this point
UPD3: The mighty CBOAT weighs in:
btusk inst not that B!g. teh spygam WAS REAAL.
preriod.
n itwa$ good.
Translation: Black Tusk is not that big. The spygame was real. Period. And it was good.
UPD4: Mod-verified new kid on the leaker block ntkrnl shares the codename:
It looks like it - I'd probably wager that cboat has better insight for this particular thing.
Anyway, cool codename was Shangheist, which seriously sounds fucking awesome.
Stealing shit from the Chinese.