Activision is opening Elsewhere Leisure, a brand new recreation studio engaged on a completely new franchise in Warsaw, Poland.
The studio’s new crew is tough at work making a model new story-driven mental property. It’s an in-house studio owned by Activision, which is a part of Activision Blizzard and itself a part of Microsoft Xbox. And it would not work in a recreation within the Name of Responsibility universe.
It is stunning to see Activision, which has maybe 10 studios engaged on Name of Responsibility video games, determine to create a brand new mental property. However it’s additionally a shock that its mum or dad firm (a number of divisions above this administration crew) Microsoft determined to shut three studios final week and merge the fourth into one other crew. So far as I perceive, there isn’t a connection between this resolution to create a brand new studio and the closure of different studios.
Activision has created a completely new in-house studio, Elsewhere Leisure. Many of the crew will probably be based mostly in Warsaw, Poland, with extra sources within the US centered solely on creating the brand new narrative and genre-defining triple-A franchise, Activision mentioned.
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“Constructed from the bottom up, Elsewhere Leisure is a number one and impartial studio devoted to creating environments that encourage daring and numerous concepts,” Activision mentioned. “The crew’s core mission encourages everybody to discover and creatively collaborate to create a franchise with an enduring legacy that resonates far past gaming.”
The Elsewhere Leisure crew is comprised of a group of storytelling consultants whose credit embody The Final of Us, Uncharted, The Witcher, Cyberpunk, Future, Tom Clancy’s The Division and Far Cry. Activision has not but named the founders of the studio. The crew is recruiting.
The brand new studio has full entry to Activision’s sources and instruments because it continues to ramp up manufacturing and growth. Elsewhere is recruiting best-in-class expertise from throughout the trade and around the globe to assist create cutting-edge, next-generation gaming experiences.
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