The Initiative Archives

Enjoy the trailer! Wait, really? We're getting a full reboot of the series?!? Courtesy of Microsoft. Two years ago, we announced the formation of a new Xbox Game studio in Santa Monica, The Initiative, and today at The Game Awards, we announced our first project, Perfect Dark With Perfect Dark, we're aiming to deliver a secret agent thriller set in a near-future world[...]

An interesting bit of developer news as a member of the God Of War development team has joined up with Microsoft's "The Initiative" Erik Jakobsen was a part of the Sony Santa Monica team that helped create the 2018 release for God Of War, along with other projects the company oversaw Not it appears he[...]

Microsoft announced a slew of studio acquisitions to their Xbox stable of developers, including a brand new studio called The Initiative, which will be headed by former Crystal Dynamics director Darrell Gallagher The Initiative will be based in Seattle, Washington. Microsoft also added Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, State of Decay 2's Undead Labs, Forza Horizon's Playground Games, and We Happy Few[...]