The Biggest Gaming News For March 22, 2022
Another day, another big batch of news to get through, including the report that Ubisoft is allegedly working on a new 2.5D Prince of Persia game amongst a bunch of other exciting projects. We’ve also got some details about why development on Microsoft’s Fable reboot is taking so long and the news that Mass Effect director Casey Hudson is hiring for a new AAA project. More details below.
Tom Henderson, a rather accurate and reliable leaker, hinted at a bunch of new projects from Ubisoft today, including a 2.5D Prince of Persia game that would take the series back to its roots. Other upcoming games revealed by Henderson include a sequel to Immortals: Fenyx Rising, The Crew 3, a smaller Assassin’s Creed game called Assassin’s Creed Rift, and the recently confirmed Splinter Cell Remake which apparently won’t launch until 2024 at the earliest.
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Microsoft’s Fable reboot was announced with Playground Games at the helm, a strange move considering the dev has only really worked on racing games. According to an ex-developer, progress on Fable was initially very slow as Playground Games “lacked people with knowledge” or experience with high-budget open-world RPGs. Playground has since hired more people, so it’s unknown whether these problems still exist, but it gives us an idea as to why Fable has been in development for so long.
Most people who know who Casey Hudson is will be familiar with his work on the Mass Effect series, a set of top-notch sci-fi shooters that captured the hearts of many. Hudson recently left BioWare and formed his own company, Humanoid Studios. That studio is now hiring for its first project, a AAA project that aims to create an “all-new
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