RedOctane Video games is again, and are able to deliver forth the following step in rhythm-based gaming. The corporate introduced Wednesday that it consists of “creators and builders who helped create and scale Guitar Hero and DJ Hero almost 20 years in the past” and is charging itself with a brand new mission.
“Our mission is straightforward: to deliver rhythm gaming again with extra energy, extra precision, and a deeper connection than ever earlier than,” a press release on RedOctane Sport’s official web site reads. “We’re not simply making video games, we’re creating related rhythm experiences that unite cutting-edge controllers, genre-defining titles, and a thriving group, all transferring to the identical beat. From day one, it is a journey we take collectively.”
Purple Octane revealed in a YouTube video that it’s at present engaged on a brand new title, which might be revealed later this yr.
Simon Ebejer will spearhead the brand new RedOctane. Ebejer beforehand served as manufacturing director for a number of titles within the Guitar Hero franchise below Neversoft, together with the critically acclaimed and commercially profitable Guitar Hero 3, which was launched in 2007. Ebejer additionally labored as a studio head and VP of operations at Vicarious Visions and Blizzard, respectively.
As soon as upon a time, RedOctane was based in 1999 by brothers Kai Huang and Charles Huang. The studio revealed the unique Guitar Hero and the PlayStation 2 port of Guitar Hero 2, earlier than being bought by Activision in 2006, resulting in a slew of latest music video games like 2015’s Guitar Hero Dwell.
Now, RedOctane might be often called RedOctane Video games and can function below its new dad or mum firm, Fellowship Leisure, beforehand often called Embracer Freemode, within the subsequent period of its rhythm-based mission, with Charles and Kai Huang returning as a part of a particular advisory board.