After Being Laid Off by Microsoft, Former Doom Devs Found New Smash TV-Influenced FPS Studio that Isn't "Subject to Investor Demands"
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Hidden Horses, a studio made up of veterans of id Software who were fired by Xbox, has launched the Kickstarter for their first game.
After being laid off by Microsoft, former Doom devs found new Smash TV-influenced FPS studio that isn't "subject to investor demands"
Back in July, Doom developers id Software laid off around a hundred people as part of wider Microsoft blood-letting. Now, a few of those devs have founded a new employee-owned studio, Hidden Horses. Their first project is Danger Pay, a single-player FPS influenced by ancient arcade blaster Smash TV (pictured) and dystopian movies such as deadly gameshow fable The Running Man – itself an influence on Smash TV. Hidden Horses have 20 id Software al…
Fired Xbox developers of Doom: The Dark Ages have teamed up as Hidden Horses to create an old-school adrenaline-pumping shooter
Last summer, at the behest of Xbox, the famous American studio id Software (Doom, Quake series) remained in the minority, but the employees fired without explanation did not sit idle. Image source: Steam (Lonelic [Mr. Joy]) A group of 20 […]Read more at Aroged
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