TLOU, Uncharted & Days Gone Devs Announce New AAA Game, Ashfall
The newly-formed Liithos studio has announced Ashfall, which is an upcoming survival game that is coming to PC, consoles, and Web 3.0. The Ashfall team involves the creative veterans behind games like Days Gone, Syphon Filter,The Last of Us, and Uncharted: Golden Abyss.
Liithos' team includes Michael Mumbauer (Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Liithos, formerly Founder & CEO of That’s No Moon and Head of PlayStation’s Visual Arts), and John Garvin ( (Vice President, Creative of Liithos, Writer and Director of Ashfall, former Bend Studio Creative Director of Days Gone and Syphon Filter). Mumbauer created development techniques at PlayStation Visual Arts for 13 years, helping to bring characters like Nathan Drake of Uncharted, Joel and Ellie of The Last of Us, and Deacon St. John of Days Gone to life, as well as working on The Last of Us Part II. Garvin is a PlayStation creative veteran who worked on some of Sony's biggest franchises for over 25 years, including working as the Co-Director of Days Gone and the Director of Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which was the best-selling PlayStation Vita game.
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The first project that Liithos is working on is Ashfall, which is a survival game that is set in a world that has been scarred by natural disasters and global warming. The intention is for Ashfall to start out as a single-player game, before evolving into a multiplayer PVP & PVE transmedia title. There is currently no release window for Ashfall, but it's in open development for PC, consoles, and Web 3.0.
Web 3.0 refers to the fact that the game is connected to the Hedera network, which uses a blockchain alternative called hashgraph. Ashfall will use this
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