Hasbro has opened a new AAA studio -apkrig under the Wizards of the Coast
Earlier this year, there was talk that Hasbro would open a brand new development studio with great AAA ambitions under the banner of its own Wizards of the Coast division. However, since the February presentation for investors, where the establishment of the studio was mentioned for the first time, no further information came and the only thing that could be dealt with at least vaguely was the promise of developing a new game with the Transformers theme. After more than half a year, however, an update of the existing information is finally coming, along with a specification of what the studio will be working on in the neighborhood of Raleigh and Durham in North Carolina. The first thing that comes to mind is not the next act of the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, but the full-fledged big game GI Joe.
The information comes from newly advertised advertisements that appeared on a slightly spartan corporate site. The positions for which the studio is looking for new employees clearly indicate that the team building is still in its infancy and we must take all the information about specific titles with considerable time. Hasbro, resp. Wizards of the Coast are looking for an art director, lead animator, chief designer and also technical director, which are positions that need to be filled first and only on the basis of partial preferences and decisions of these workers are other people accepted. However, the details of the advertisements state that the first common goal will be the mentioned game from the world of action hero GI Joe.
We are building a new development team with the most talented people who will create our first multiplatform action adventure set in the world of GI Joe.
“The new studio in Raleigh is run by veterans of WB Games and other AAA studios. New Raleigh-Durham Studio is a division of Wizards of the Coast, which is part of Hasbra, “the developers define the position of the new team, for which they have only the above-mentioned general designation. “We’re building a new development team with the most talented people to create our first multi-platform action adventure set in the world of GI Joe,” the studio said. The introductory paragraph is the same for all four ads and makes it more than clear which brand will be handled in Raleigh. However, it is not only GI Joe that Hasbro wants to address through his own capacities – the aforementioned Transformers and brands such as Micronauts or Oujia are not left out either.
If we were to return for a short time to the phenomenon of GI Joe, it is of course necessary to note that from the point of view of Czech or Slovak players actually no phenomenon it doesn’t work. The action hero, representing since the mid-1960s a universal soldier of the US Army, is a strongly regional affair and our market is increasingly did not fight through. Nevertheless, it has been possible to play games with this character since the early 1980s, with the last being Operation Blackout from last year, which was released on Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC. However, the project of Chilean developers from the IguanaBee studio did not collect any high marks, and the only thing that will hopefully connect it with the upcoming novelty is the technology used. So far, the last game has been running on the Unreal Engine, which is supposed to repeat the planned title from studying in Raleigh, while it is speculated that everything should be created on the latest fifth generation of this engine. But that in itself doesn’t mean much at the moment.
