Marvel's Wolverine Creative Director is Now Leading Perfect Dark - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2024 / 1,030 Views
The creative director on Marvel’s Wolverine, Brian Horton, has left the developer Insomniac Games and is now working at the Xbox studio The Initiative as the creative director on the reboot of Perfect Dark, according to Game File.
A Sony Interactive Entertainment representative told Game File Marvel’s Wolverine is now led by creative director Marcus Smith and Mike Daly will serve as new game director. The previous game director, Cameron Christian, still works at the developer, but in a different role.
Smith and Daly previously worked on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart as creative director and game director, respectively.
Two sources told Game File this change is due to creative decisions around the development of Marvel’s Wolverine. The Sony Interactive Entertainment representative declined to comment on the reason for the change.
An Xbox representative told Game File that Hortan will be "bringing his wealth of experience to the upcoming reboot of the classic secret agent series."
Xbox first-party studio The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics are co-developing the reboot of Perfect Dark.
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I guess neither Wolverine or Perfect Dark are as far along as I would have thought lol
Quite the contrary: this specific position and leaving one company to go to another happens all the time, and is usually associated with the one game being "done" from that Creative Director point of view, so he moves unto another that is still a long ways off and, well, needs a Creative Director.
This to me means that Marvel's Wolverine is now in the bug testing/play balancing phase, but that the majority of the story/main gameplay elements/overall design is finished. I am still predicting a summer 2025 release for it :) (regardless of what negative rumors say about its development)
Perfect Dark, on the other hand - yeah, I'm thinking that is a ways off. Xbox 1080 launch title perhaps?
Kinda hard to claim that when we’ve seen gameplay of one and haven’t heard of anything about the other (outside of an unfortunate studio hack) since a CGI trailer 3 years ago lol. I’d love if Wolverine ended up being 2025 though! I’m figuring both will be 2026 releases.
Xbox 1080, I like that!
Well the "gameplay" of perfect dark was quite clearly just a vertical slice. and we know from the supposed timeline of the kotor remake you can apparently even have a vertical slice without any real development on the game proper yet. I'm also not alone in that assumption as the digital foundry guys seemed to all agree it had all the marks of a vertical slice.
The Insomniac leak from a year ago had Wolverine listed as 2026. Nothing about this news suggests that 2026 isn't the expected timeline. still.
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