God of War producer joins Microsoft's The Initiative studio

Today, Darrell Gallagher, the Studio Head of The Initiative, revealed that acclaimed developers like Brian Westergaard, Annie Lohr, Blake Fischer, Christian Cantamessa, Daniel Neuburger, and Lindsey McQueeney were now a office of the team. Microsoft founded The Initiative this year so that they could build quality Microsoft exclusives similar God of War or Uncharted. It seems like the company has the team to do just that because individuals like Westergaard take worked on such games. Westergaard was previously the Senior Managing Producer for Narrative and Animation on God of War at Sony's Santa Monica Studio. He's besides worked on Rise of the Tomb Raider in the by.

It'southward nifty to meet Microsoft rent such individuals. Hopefully this will accost the concerns many gamers had that Microsoft wasn't producing enough quality first-party exclusives which rivaled those plant on the competition. Games like God of War, Spider-Man, The Legend of Zelda: Jiff of The Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Horizon Zero Dawn garner a lot of press attending and this is noticed by many gamers who own an Xbox I. Not everyone has the means to buy all the consoles in social club to play all of these games. People require comparable games on the platform they own.

We'll keep you posted as soon equally we know more than nigh what The Initiative is working on. Hopefully the championship will be an open-world game which pushes the boundaries of storytelling.

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