Replace: In a assertion on its web site, the Malta-based 4A Video games clarified it is a distinct studio from Reburn (previously 4A Video games Ukraine) and affirmed it’s going to proceed to make Metro video games going ahead.
The studio mentioned progress on the subsequent mainline title continues with the assistance of “[Metro author] Dmitry Glukhovsky, the identical core founders, management, builders, and practically 20 years expertise on the sequence.”
“We’re the group that created and constructed the Metro video games you already know and love,” wrote 4A. “The 4A Video games you already know and love haven’t modified, and we’re not rebranding. We’re the identical builders of Metro that introduced you Metro 2033, Metro: Final Mild, Metro Redux, and Metro Exodus.”
It is also engaged on a separate, second IP it plans to disclose extra about “after we’re prepared.”
Authentic story: Ukranian developer 4A Video games has a brand new identify and the sport to go together with it. As of right now, the Metro developer is now Reburn, and its “inaugural” undertaking is the sci-fi shooter La Quimera.
In an announcement to press, CEO Dmytro Lymar defined the identify change was to keep away from confusion with the Maltese group that shared the unique identify and is equally owned by Embracer. The studio moved its headquarters to Malta in 2014 throughout the Russo-Ukranian battle.
Lymar additionally felt it was apt to depart the unique 4A identify with the Metro sequence following its final mainline entry, 2019’s Metro: Exodus. “For the brand new IP, we’d create a brand new model,” he mentioned. “The identify [‘Reburn’] means ‘burning once more,’ however for us it has the which means much like rebirth or reincarnation in a brand new type, for the creation of a brand new sport with personal IP.”
La Quimera is an unique property for the studio—its second after the Oculus Rift title Arktika.1—and is at present solely slated for a Steam launch. In a departure from its earlier work, the sport will probably be playable in single-player and three-player co-op. Lead designer Kostiuk Oleksandr informed Polygon the sport’s expertise “permits us to seamlessly combine new gameplay components,” and its sci-fi setting would offer a change of tempo for long-time builders at Reburn.
“We’ve lengthy needed to create an journey that gamers may expertise each solo and with pals,” he mentioned. “We additionally needed to step away from the post-apocalyptic themes of the post-Soviet setting. Some group members have been working in that house for practically 15 years—and even longer, relationship again to the unique STALKER.”
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A number of builders have rebranded in current months, and it is usually marked some form of paradigm shift. Halo Studios‘ identify change included a transfer away from the sequence’ Slipspace Engine to Unreal within the hopes of releasing extra Halo sport tasks at a extra constant tempo.
When a writer modifications its identify, it is typically to meant to mirror its rising enterprise or aspirations to develop into a much bigger participant within the trade.
Generally, it is the sport that is getting the rebrand—and in these modifications, it is typically to clarify what it is about. IO Interactive’s Hitman: World of Assassination makes extra sense than Hitman III because it encompasses the complete reboot trilogy and subsequent DLC in a single unified bundle, in any case.
