Microsoft acquired Gears of War rights. Black Tusk to develop the games

[Jaywood2010]

jlmurph2 said:

JayWood2010 said:

For the people wondering about Black Tusk's New Ip this is from Black Tusk. And seeing as Gears was just bought it will likely be years before the next gears.

“Big games, big teams, big budgets, long timelines […] What that means is we are working on Microsoft’s next big entertainment franchise. We’re not working on an existing franchise, we’re looking to build the next Halo here in Vancouver, for example, which is really exciting. We are building something from the ground up.”

So hyped, I expect this "next Halo" from Black Tusk to be this year and Gears in 2016-2017

My guess is next year is the new ip.

- in 2012 they had 55 employees and still hiring.  
- 2013 they said they were working on 4 core titles
-2013 released a tech demo at E3
-2013 microsoft Vitoria got relocated to Black Tusk and Big Park Studios expanding employees
-2014 Microsoft acquires Gears 

From what we know theyre working on a new ip and didnt acquire a huge team until most likely sometime in 2013.  Phil Spencer says it is like 343i so my guess is they are a pretty big studio.

The thing is, i dont believe they started working on their game until 2013 so 2015 at the earliest i believe with a 2/3 year life cycle.  Since gears was just bought itll at least be another 2/3 years for it so i agree with the 2016-2017 for Gears.