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"It sure sounds like The Initiative is working on a new Perfect Dark". "Phil Spencer admits Xbox needed the Perfect Dark reboot to make its firstparty lineup less male". "Perfect Dark allows Xbox to focus on 'modern opportunities' says Phil Spencer". "Microsoft has five (!) new internal studios". "A new Perfect Dark game is on the way from The Initiative". ^ a b Goslin, Austen (December 10, 2020).The game will also be available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. As a first-party Microsoft game, Perfect Dark is expected to be released for Xbox platforms and Microsoft Windows. Marketing and release Īlthough work on a Perfect Dark revival was rumored in early 2018, Perfect Dark was officially announced at The Game Awards 2020 with a teaser trailer, after development on the game had been hinted by some sources earlier that year. Daniel Neuburger, who had previously directed several Tomb Raider games at Crystal Dynamics, is in charge of the project.
In September 2021, The Initiative announced they would be partnering with Crystal Dynamics on the game's development. Shortly afterwards, God of War producer Rhonda Cox joined the company as senior producer for the game. In February 2021, Murray left The Initiative to rejoin Insomniac Games. Design director Drew Murray revealed that the game is being envisioned as a spy shooter, and that the studio wants the player character's physicality to play a bigger role than in traditional first-person shooters. According to a source, the game will run on Unreal Engine 4 and feature "various weapons, gadgets, and a camera surveillance system". Plans for the game had already been discussed before Gallagher joined The Initiative, with Xbox head Phil Spencer stating that the game is seen as an opportunity for protagonist Joanna Dark to diversify the Xbox family. Gallagher, who had previously worked on the 2013 Tomb Raider revival, chose to work on a Perfect Dark reboot after Microsoft presented him with a few opportunities. Perfect Dark is the first project by The Initiative, a Microsoft studio founded in 2018 and headed by Darrell Gallagher. Perfect Dark will take place in a near future world that has been torn apart by ecological disasters.