More Syndicate Rumor Mongering
I love a good rumor as much as the next guy, so this juicy rumor about Starbreeze developing a new Syndicate game is certainly super delicious. According to a source close to the company, confiding in GameIndustry.biz - who is apparently great at keeping secrets (remind me not to tell them about that drunken bender I had in Tijuana in ‘89) - says that the rumor is true. The project which Starbreeze has called “Project Redlime” is apparently a new Syndicate game being developed for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The original Syndicate series was created by Peter Molyneux’s Bullfrog Studios, which was eventually acquired by EA.
GameIndustry.biz surmises that work on this game will have to wait until after Starbreeze finishes the work it is doing for EA on the next Robert Ludlum Bourne game, which EA acquired the rights to when Activision dumped the rights earlier this year. Naturally all of this is supposition and rumor, and EA is not commenting on any of it. If it is true, EA could do worse: Starbreeze is responsible for such hits as The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness..
we’ve put a request out to EA for comment in the meantime.
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Gamers Get ‘Bourne’ Again With EA and Starbreeze
Last year, after the merger between Activision and Blizzard was finalized, a lot of franchises disappeared from the gaming radar. While Ghostbusters found a new home at Atari and THQ saw fit to pick up the new 50 Cent game, one property still in limbo was the fate of Jason Bourne. The Bourse license reverted back to Ludlum Entertainment after the merger, and gamers were left asking if they’d ever get a chance to once again fill the shoes of Robert Ludlum’s amnesiac superspy. Today, they got their answer.
Early this morning, Electronic Arts announced that Ludlum Entertainment has granted it the exclusive worldwide license to create video games based on the works of Robert Ludlum. The first game to be released as part of the new multi-year agreement will be a new Jason Bourne game, currently in development at Starbreeze Studios.
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Category Action, Film, Genres, Industry, Other, Platforms, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | Tags: Bourne,EA,Electronic Arts,franchise,Jason Bourne,Matt Wolf,Robert Ludlum,Starbreeze,Universal
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