A model new Mafia sport is believed to be within the early phases of improvement at Hangar 13. The staff appears to lastly be engaged on their very own unannounced mission following stints serving to Gearbox with Borderlands: The Good-looking Assortment and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Nonetheless, management modifications could but throw a spanner within the works if the rumor Mafia 4 is in improvement is true.
What we learn about Mafia 4
The brand new Mafia sport, tentatively titled Nero, is within the very early phases 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 based on Kotaku, and can be constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 fairly 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 — had 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 workers and copied to shops 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 can be changed by the present studio head at Hangar 13’s Brighton studio, Nick Baynes. Guardian firm 2K stated:
I hope you’ll be part of me in thanking Haden and wishing him one of the best, and congratulating Nick on a well-deserved promotion. Whereas change may be difficult, it may additionally breed new alternatives and success. We’re assured the studio is in nice fingers heading into the a number of initiatives at present underneath manner, and the staff has 2K’s full assist.
In different information, Activision has blamed poor sales of Call of Duty: Vanguard on the sport’s World Conflict II setting. Elsewhere, Gunzilla Video games and Neill Blomkamp have introduced a model new AAA Battle Royale sport referred to as Off The Grid.
