Phil Spencer: The Initiative Is Working on New and 'Old Things' - News

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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer took to Twitter to reveal he spent sometime with first-party developer The Initiative. He says the team is working on new and old things. 

"Great update today with [Darrell Gallagher], [Matt Booty] and the team [at The Initiative]," said Spencer on Twitter. "Incredibly talented studio challenging themselves to do new things things (and old things) in new ways."

The tease of "old things" could mean the developer is working on a legacy Xbox IP that has not seen a new release in many years. Halo, Gears of War and Forza are the three main franchises from Microsoft that all have developers working on new games. It has also been long rumored that Forza Horizon developer, Playground Games, has been working on a new Fable game.

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DonFerrari (on 29 January 2020)

Best of luck and bring great games.

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Azzanation shikamaru317 (on 29 January 2020)

The Game has protential to be Xboxes Metal Gear Solid / Tomb Raider. I would be extremly excited to see its return.

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method114 ClassicGamingWizzz (on 29 January 2020)

They do this all the time. Take a studio and force them to pump out sequel after sequel until there's no life in those games anymore because the devs our on auto pilot. One of the reasons Bungie left.

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Azzanation ClassicGamingWizzz (on 29 January 2020)

They rebranded the company from Black Tusk to Coalition to focus on the Gears series.. how many companies have they rebranded to do this?

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Zoombael ClassicGamingWizzz (on 30 January 2020)

I guess what you had in mind was when they introduced the (new) studio by showing some CG of a game that never existed. "Black Tusk" and everybody thought it's a new game. Later MS cleared things up. "The Coalition", doing old things in new ways.

"The Initiative". Very reminiscent of what theyve done in 2013.

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