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 can proceed to make Metro video games going ahead.
The studio mentioned progress on the following mainline title continues with the assistance of “[Metro author] Dmitry Glukhovsky, the identical core founders, management, builders, and almost 20 years expertise on the sequence.”
“We’re the workforce that created and constructed the Metro video games you realize and love,” wrote 4A. “The 4A Video games you realize 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 “once we’re prepared.”
Authentic story: Ukranian developer 4A Video games has a brand new identify and the sport to associate with it. As of right this moment, 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 workforce that shared the unique identify and is equally owned by Embracer. The studio moved its headquarters to Malta in 2014 in the course of the Russo-Ukranian struggle.
Lymar additionally felt it was apt to go away the unique 4A identify with the Metro sequence following its final mainline entry, 2019’s Metro: Exodus. “For the brand new IP, we might 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 recreation with personal IP.”
La Quimera is an unique property for the studio—its second after the Oculus Rift title Arktika.1—and is presently 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 instructed Polygon the sport’s expertise “permits us to seamlessly combine new gameplay parts,” and its sci-fi setting would supply 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 buddies,” he mentioned. “We additionally needed to step away from the post-apocalyptic themes of the post-Soviet setting. Some workforce members have been working in that area for almost 15 years—and even longer, courting again to the unique STALKER.”
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A number of builders have rebranded in latest months, and it is usually marked some sort 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 recreation tasks at a extra constant tempo.
When a writer adjustments its identify, it is typically to meant to replicate its rising enterprise or aspirations to change into an even bigger participant within the business.
Typically, it is the sport that is getting the rebrand—and in these adjustments, 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 package deal, in any case.
