Crate Entertainment: From The Ashes of Iron Lore

Cambridge, Massachusetts has a brand new development studio, but it features some familiar faces from the former developers of Titan Quest. Two former Iron Lore Studios developers, lead designer Arthur Bruno and former art director Eric Campanella, have formed Crate Entertainment, and are apparently sharing office space with another Cambridge-based developer - Demiurge Studios (developers of the Pc port of Mass Effect, Brothers in Arms: Double Time and Frontlines: Fuel of War).

The duo has bought rights to two of Iron Lore’s unreleased projects and are currently showing a demo of one two publishers in hopes of jump-starting further development. The project they are showing (they aren’t talking about the other at the moment) is an Xbox 360 action RPG called Black Legion, which takes the gameplay from Titan Quest and refines it for a wider audience.

“One of our real goals is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience,” said former Iron Lore lead designer Arthur Bruno, to Mass High Tech in a conversation about the new game.

More on this story and Crate as it develops. Thanks, Shacknews.