Super excited to announce that today is my first day at ZeniMax Online Studios! I'll be the Lead Level Designer for live service content on a new AAA IP and I cannot wait to get started!

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He's the new Seattle location hire.

Fairly confident this will be an MMO.

Agreed, Lol.

They need to dump Zenimax though and change it to Bethesda Online Studios.

Do they exist? I'm not actually sure, I can't recall Xbox ever making reference to Zenimax Media since the acquisition, Bethesda Softworks is the entire Bethesda arm, as you said, Zenimax is just a holding company so it shouldn't exist anymore but I'm not 100%

Played the first mission of the first Crossfire X campaign. It's alright.
Walking speed feels a bit slow compared to CoD.

But no reason to continue unless they add achievements.
Deleted to make space for the Cyberpunk trial.

There are no campaign achievements? Yikes on bikes, that game is a total shitshow.

Asked to elaborate on the comments in a soon-to-be-published VGC interview, the newly-promoted PlatinumGames vice president claimed that he wasn’t joking about revisiting Scalebound.

“I think it’s really strange because, to be honest, I’ve been in a lot of interviews since the project ended and I feel like I’ve said many times that I’d love to be able to bring it back,” he said.

“Having gotten somewhere with it, as a creator I’d like to see it to the end. And I hear fans saying they really want to play that game, which is too bad, and I want to give that to them when I hear that.”

He added: “That’s something that I thought I’d been saying, or I’d been trying to say for years now. I’ve said it in interviews before and gotten no reaction, but now finally I got a big reaction, and I was glad to see that. But no, it’s not a joke: I’m totally serious about it, yeah.”

Asked if Platinum was already in conversations with Microsoft over Scalebound, Kamiya replied: “I can’t confirm or deny anything, but we could be talking to Microsoft. But we could also be talking to Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Konami or anybody!”

Asked why he felt that he’d have better luck working on Scalebound a second time around, Kamiya told VGC he believed that Platinum had grown since its development ended.

“Nothing super surprising [has changed], just time. As a company, we’ve gradually grown, gained experience in terms of technology and more people,” he explained.

“At the time when we were making Scalebound, there was a lot that we couldn’t deliver on and that was hard for me. It was hard to fail like that. When the project went away, it wasn’t like the very next day I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to try again’. I needed a rest.

“But time passes, things change, things are different now. I’ve had some time to think and yeah, I’d like to try making Scalebound again. That’s my feeling.”

Hideki Kamiya says he’s ‘totally serious’ about resurrecting Xbox exclusive Scalebound | VGC (videogameschronicle.com)