Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks has unveiled its new-look web site and confirmed its engaged on an “unannounced motion recreation.”
The site — which exhibits new branding and a careers web page recruiting for new roles for an unannounced mission — states Tango Gameworks’ core mission is to “create new video games and broaden mental properties” as an “unbiased growth studio based mostly in Tokyo, Japan” underneath the Krafton umbrella.
In Might 2024, Microsoft introduced it had closed numerous Bethesda studios, together with Tango Gameworks and Redfall’s Arkane Austin. The information was met with shock and anger by builders and followers alike, particularly after Microsoft govt Aaron Greenberg had beforehand stated Hi-Fi Rush was a “breakout hit for [Xbox] and [its] gamers in all key measurements and expectations.”
PUBG writer Krafton then acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP from Microsoft again in August 2024, saving the studio from being shut down. Krafton shared the information in a press launch alongside confirming that, “as a part of this strategic settlement, Krafton intends to collaborate with Xbox and ZeniMax to guarantee a easy transition and preserve continuity at Tango Gameworks, permitting the gifted workforce to proceed growing the Hi-Fi Rush IP and discover future tasks.”
“Lastly, after months of ready, Tango Gameworks is again, and in a brand-new means,” the studio’s new web site states. “We’ve opened our web site to give our followers and future workforce members a glance into our studio. Right here you possibly can be taught in regards to the studio philosophy, as nicely as see featurettes from members of the workforce.
“Since becoming a member of Krafton, Tango Gameworks embarks on a brand new chapter, growing titles that resonate with gamers around the globe,” the corporate added. “We stay devoted to the creation and progress of distinctive and new IPs, taking up challenges to be a novel voice within the recreation business.”
Tango added that its imaginative and prescient is “centered on a studio that acts like a artistic workshop, making video games and experiences that emphasize that ‘hand-made’ really feel we put into our work.”
As for what that new recreation could also be? That is tough to name proper now. A news put up revealed earlier as we speak says Tango “aren’t prepared to reveal a lot but,” however “has numerous positions open for early work on an unannounced motion recreation.”
“The positions span virtually each division, so in case you are thinking about working with the workforce behind such hit releases as Hi-Fi Rush, learn up on our studio philosophy.” In accordance to a machine translation of the senior-level designer position, Tango is trying for somebody with “expertise growing 3D motion video games” in Unreal Engine 5. The cutscene manager job equally calls for 3D motion recreation expertise, however does not give us every other clues for now. Might or not it’s Hi-Fi Rush 2?
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