Cory Barlog leaves SCEA, God of War III confirmed
- Posted November 7th, 2007 at 05:04 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that Cory Barlog, Director of the PlayStation 2 hit God of War II, has quit his position with the firm’s Santa Monica Studios to pursue other ventures.
"We can confirm that Cory Barlog, game director for God of War II, is leaving the SCEA [Santa Monica] Studio and we are grateful for his work and creative vision for the critically acclaimed God of War franchise,” a spokesperson revealed.
The spokesperson also reaffirmed that God of War III is currently in development for PlayStation 3, marking the first instance where the title has actually been mentioned in a public statement.
"Moving forward, we are confident in the God of War team, as they are an extremely talented group of people that are passionate about the franchise and dedicated to creating even more epic content with God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP and God of War III for PS3."
Barlog’s future plans are currently unknown. Stay tuned for more coverage on the God of War franchise as it breaks.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 6:10am GMT - November 7th, 2007
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Doesn't matter,Jaffe wasn't included in GOW2's dev team.So i don't think getting a new guy to get the job done would make much of a difference,now if Kojima san was selling the MGS franchise,that would be another story.
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The Cleaner
- 6:40am GMT - November 7th, 2007
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This guy was from Sony, Santa Monica - I think theres some movement of people going on. Mostly from R&D. You guys probably noted that three lead engineers resigned from their positions in developing Playstation in the past three weeks. This includes the Chief Technical Officer and two Executive level Engineers. Whats going on?
It appears to be a "Dumbing Down" of Sony in order to reduce costs and head count. You are probably already aware that Sony recently sold the Cell fabrication plant - but are you also aware that Sony has quit the Cell Joint Venture outright? Today Sony advised the Financial Markets that it had decided to cancelled all R&D funding and commitments held in the former Sony, IBM, Toshiba Cell Processor venture. They appear to be no longer willing to do any development or continue involvement in the development of the Cell processor...
I posted this earlier - but probably in a silly spot so here is the official release:
Sony Corp to exit chip development deal with IBM, Toshiba - report
(Thomson Financial via COMTEX) TOKYO, Nov 07, 2007 Sony Corp, plans to withdraw from its research project with IBM Corp and Toshiba Corp to develop manufacturing technologies for next-generation semiconductor chips, the Nikkei reported on Wednesday.
The move follows the company's decision to sell Toshiba its production facility for the Cell microprocessor, used in the PlayStation 3 video game console, the business daily said.
Under the project, the three companies are researching and developing materials and technologies necessary for the manufacture of chips with line widths of 32 nanometers or narrower.
This project began in late 2005 and is scheduled to run until the end of 2010, the report said.
In addition, Sony plans to cancel capital investments in production facilities for the 45 nanometer or any later generations of the Cell microprocessor, it said.
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THE_NEXUS |
nexus321- 11:40am GMT - November 7th, 2007
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nooooooo why!!!!!! this is terrible.I always thought that god of war 1-2 were the best games ever made.I pray to god that god of war 3 doesnt suck, and why is cory leaving sony??? he is one of the highest paid game directors ever.Probably if u think abt it
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 4:22pm GMT - November 7th, 2007
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I just hope GoW III is as epic as it should be.
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