A model new Mafia recreation is believed to be within the early phases of improvement at Hangar 13. The group appears to lastly be engaged on their very own unannounced challenge following stints serving to Gearbox with Borderlands: The Good-looking Assortment and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Nonetheless, management adjustments could but throw a spanner within the works if the rumor Mafia 4 is in improvement is true.
What we find out about Mafia 4
The brand new Mafia recreation, tentatively titled Nero, is within the very early phases of improvement and is meant to be a prequel to the Mafia trilogy. The sport is reported to be within the palms of Hangar 13’s Brighton studio based on Kotaku, and will likely be constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 5 quite than the Phantasm engine that ran Mafia III. The sport is an indication the developer is transferring away from authentic tasks and again to much less dangerous established franchises. Three authentic IPs — Rhapsody, Volt, and Mosaic — had been all reportedly canceled earlier than they’d even been revealed, inflicting two rounds of layoffs to happen on the studio.
This doesn’t imply personnel stays unchanged. In an e-mail despatched to studio staff and copied to shops like IGN, Hangar 13 studio head Haden Blackman is stepping down after seven years on the firm. Blackman is transferring on to an unknown firm to “pursue his ardour at a brand new endeavor”. He will likely be changed by the present studio head at Hangar 13’s Brighton studio, Nick Baynes. Dad or mum firm 2K mentioned:
I hope you’ll be a part of me in thanking Haden and wishing him the very best, and congratulating Nick on a well-deserved promotion. Whereas change will be difficult, it will possibly additionally breed new alternatives and success. We’re assured the studio is in nice palms heading into the a number of tasks presently beneath method, and the group has 2K’s full assist.
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