Wed, Jul 22, 2009 | 20:09 BST

EA confirms departure of Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey [UPDATE]

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EA has responded to requests from VG247 regarding the departure of Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey.

According to a spokesperson:

“I can confirm that they are exiting EA. It takes a team of talented people to make a highly-rated game like Dead Space. The team at Visceral are currently working on Dante’s Inferno, Dead Space Extraction and new titles to be announced at a later date.

“Production is uninterrupted on Dante’s Inferno and Dead Space Extraction. SVP Nick Earl continues to lead the Visceral Games Studio.”

So there ya have it. Confirmed.

Now we are awaiting word from Activison regarding what their positions with the newly formed studio entails.

Update: According to an email we received from an Activision spokesperson:

“Glen Schofield along with Michael Condrey will lead the studio which will be creating a new game based on one of Activision’s existing franchises.

“We will be providing more details regarding the game at a later date.”

No other details were forthcoming, other than Activision’s plans on continuing its revamp of proven titles which is not news, really.

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#1

Phoenixblight
22/07/09, 8:11 pm

Another studio for GH so they can just force them one after another…

#2

Stephany Nunneley
22/07/09, 8:12 pm

Well some sites are saying it may be a new James Bond game.

#3

Phoenixblight
22/07/09, 8:14 pm

Still not impressed none of the Bond games have been good since Goldeneye and that was made by Rare.

#4

Stephany Nunneley
22/07/09, 8:25 pm

I get choked up thinking of Goldeneye…..

#5

Jonathan Cullen
22/07/09, 8:50 pm

PB – Nightfall and Everything or Nothing (especially EoN) say hi.

#6

Phoenixblight
22/07/09, 9:16 pm

Didn’t like them especially Nightfire. BTW How is it Activision has the 007 series when its actually EA owns them?

Edit: NVM guess Acti got it with Quantum of SOlace which was god awful…

#7

Jonathan Cullen
22/07/09, 9:17 pm

Activision now owns the rights to the Bond IP, EA lost them.

They got it before Casino Royale was released.

#8

Blerk
23/07/09, 9:01 am

Oh, Christ no. Take talented people, put them to work on a dead-end piece of licensed tat.

#9

Phoenixblight
23/07/09, 9:10 am

Talented?

Glen was just the Executive producer just means he handled the money…. takes no talent especially with EA…

Michael is just a policy handler, yeah real talent there…

#10

Blerk
23/07/09, 9:28 am

Actually, you’re completely right. When they said they’d worked on Dead Space I sort of presumed they’d done something worthwhile. :-D

#11

Phoenixblight
23/07/09, 9:32 am

Yeah same here til I did the research because I was worried about creativity of Visceral going down hill

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