Darrell Gallagher Head of Microsoft's new studio 'The Initiative" formerly welcomed some new hires to the team according to a Linkedin post which was later taken down but he also made the same post on twitter where our very own CrimsonEclipse was able to get a snapshot.
The link has been taken down now but CrimsonEclipse was able to get a snapshot of the twitter post below.
Brian Westergaard - Lead Producer/Senior Producer on ROTR and Senior Managing Producer on God of War
Christian Cantamessa - Leader Writer and Designer on Red Dead Redemption
Annie Lohr is a Senior Industry Recruiter and Daniel Neuburger worked as a co-director on the Tomb Raider Reboot and Rise of the Tomb Raider alongside Brian Horton.
Blake Fischer - Senior Director of Portfolio Planning for MS, He has been very helpful in getting a number of games to Xbox and has been credited for his assistance in games such as The Witcher 3, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, Ninja Gaiden , Rise of the Tomb Raider, Blinx, Tao Feng, Fall Out 3, Killer Instinct, Cuphead, Elder Scrolls IV...etc
Darrell said in an interview a few months ago that the mandate given to MS studios was to go out and get top talent and creators and according to this list he seems to be pulling in some amazing talent and I'm really pumped for whatever the initiative has planned.
:credit to mikefizzled and CrimsonEclipse.
Darrell is already pulling in some serious talent.
Lead Producer/Senior Producer on ROTR and Senior Managing Producer on God of War
Leader Writer and Designer on Red Dead Redemption
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6433463746622029824/
The link has been taken down now but CrimsonEclipse was able to get a snapshot of the twitter post below.
So I was looking at my tweeter feed and I follow Darrell Gallagher (Studio Head) for The Initiative and he posted the following:
Basically a link to a LinkedIn page listing new members of The Initiative. So I scoped out the link and these are the new members of the Initiative:
I don't know any of who those folks are, but something told me to grab some screenshots and I did. I then shared out the link to the tweet in the Xbox discord for Era and we found out that he deleted the tweet. A member of the discord chat (Slicerdyster) did some quick work on googling those fine folks and this is what we found out:
So, looks like they are getting talented folks for this studio which makes this extremely exciting considering the games they worked on and the studio's their from. Thoughts?
- Brian Westergaard worked on GoW (2018) as the lead producer.
- Annie Lohr is the recruiter and worked at Respawn.
- Christian Cantamessa - the writer from rdr is at the company.
- Blake Fischer - Senior Director of Portfolio Planning for MS, but now working with The Initiative.
- Daniel Neuburger & Lindsey McQueeney are from Crystal Dynamics.
Edit: Provided a bit more detail on where these hires are from.
Brian Westergaard - Lead Producer/Senior Producer on ROTR and Senior Managing Producer on God of War
Christian Cantamessa - Leader Writer and Designer on Red Dead Redemption
Annie Lohr is a Senior Industry Recruiter and Daniel Neuburger worked as a co-director on the Tomb Raider Reboot and Rise of the Tomb Raider alongside Brian Horton.
Blake Fischer - Senior Director of Portfolio Planning for MS, He has been very helpful in getting a number of games to Xbox and has been credited for his assistance in games such as The Witcher 3, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, Ninja Gaiden , Rise of the Tomb Raider, Blinx, Tao Feng, Fall Out 3, Killer Instinct, Cuphead, Elder Scrolls IV...etc
Darrell said in an interview a few months ago that the mandate given to MS studios was to go out and get top talent and creators and according to this list he seems to be pulling in some amazing talent and I'm really pumped for whatever the initiative has planned.
:credit to mikefizzled and CrimsonEclipse.