Activision's Secret Studio Making A New IP Seems To Be Ramping Up
One of Activision’s newest development teams, Elsewhere Entertainment, is continuing to hire and seems to be expanding to a new region, suggesting the team’s mysterious project may be ramping up.Elsewhere is making an “all-new franchise” that is a “narrative-based IP,” but there continue to be no other details available as of yet. But now, Elsewhere is hiring for jobs based in Malmo, Sweden, which is noteworthy because previously the studio was only known to have a presence in Warsaw, Poland.Malmo is also home to Just Cause studio Avalanche and Star Wars Outlaws developer Massive. Hitman developer IO Interactive also has an office in the Swedish city.Elsewhere is actively hiring for a variety of roles currently across a number of disciplines, though the jobs ads don’t give much away. It so…
Read moreSorry, Alien: Romulus, The Best Alien Sequel Is Still Alien: Isolation
There’s something specific about Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien that makes it such an enduring classic. With the combination of its heavy focus on relatable, blue-collar characters, its dingy, lived-in capitalist version of space travel, and its stalking, unknowably malevolent creature, it creates a feeling that other horror movies have chased and tried to replicate again and again across the decades since its release.The latest attempt to recapture what made Alien so viscerally, singularly frightening is Alien: Romulus, a sequel to that original movie. It does a better job than some of the Alien canon of at least creating scary moments with the universe’s greatest killing machine, but it relies on explosive, bombastic moments with H.R. Geiger’s xenomorph, much like the rest of the series…
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