A model new Mafia sport is believed to be within the early levels of improvement at Hangar 13. The staff appears to lastly be engaged on their very own unannounced undertaking following stints serving to Gearbox with Borderlands: The Good-looking Assortment and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Nevertheless, management modifications could but throw a spanner within the works if the rumor Mafia 4 is in improvement is true.
What we find out about Mafia 4
The brand new Mafia sport, tentatively titled Nero, is within the very early levels of improvement and is meant to be a prequel to the Mafia trilogy. The sport is reported to be within the fingers of Hangar 13’s Brighton studio in accordance with Kotaku, and will probably be constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 slightly than the Phantasm engine that ran Mafia III. The sport is an indication the developer is shifting away from unique initiatives and again to much less dangerous established franchises. Three unique IPs — Rhapsody, Volt, and Mosaic — have been all reportedly canceled earlier than they’d even been revealed, inflicting two rounds of layoffs to happen on the studio.
This doesn’t imply personnel stays unchanged. In an e-mail despatched to studio staff and copied to retailers like IGN, Hangar 13 studio head Haden Blackman is stepping down after seven years on the firm. Blackman is shifting on to an unknown firm to “pursue his ardour at a brand new endeavor”. He will probably be changed by the present studio head at Hangar 13’s Brighton studio, Nick Baynes. Mother or father firm 2K mentioned:
I hope you’ll be a part of me in thanking Haden and wishing him one of the best, and congratulating Nick on a well-deserved promotion. Whereas change could be difficult, it will possibly additionally breed new alternatives and success. We’re assured the studio is in nice fingers heading into the a number of initiatives presently underneath means, and the staff has 2K’s full assist.
In different information, Activision has blamed poor gross sales of Name of Obligation: Vanguard on the sport’s World Warfare II setting. Elsewhere, Gunzilla Video games and Neill Blomkamp have introduced a model new AAA Battle Royale sport referred to as Off The Grid.
