Right on the heels of headlines claiming David Jaffe had left the core games industry to work in the casual space, the colorful developer announced his new “core games” studio.
“I am still with ESP and have not left, and will not leave until we get Twisted Metal launched (probably another 1.5-3 months),” Jaffe said on twitter.
“But I will be leaving to start new game studio. Talking to people about some big, huge next-gen game ideas I’d love for us to make, as well as cool stuff in the browser space (action-oriented, gamer-centric).
Once DICE wraps and the game launches, it’s company-building time!” he continued.
Concerning yesterday’s announcement, some thought Jaffe was laid off. He took to his favorite spot (twitter) to once again clarify:
“If I may clear this up: I was not laid off. I co-own the company. There were a few lay-offs and they were very painful to do for all involved,” he said. “I’m leaving because – again – games are just getting too big to direct from 300 miles away, and I miss the day-to-day of working direct with a team.”
Twisted Metal goes on sale exclusively for PS3 next week.
funny, ever since jaffe said hes creating a new studio all the conspiracy theorists are running saying hes doing GOW4.
sigh, funny how people can turn water into a oil rig fire!
Oh wow, he’s surely not doing GOW4.
it would be cool though.
it was really interesting hearing hes idea for GOW4 what he would change with the series if he was to go back to it.
will never happen, but id be cool to see what it would turn out like.
hopefully his new studio will make a new IP what he would want to do with GOW4.