- Dean Rymer, a senior combat designer on PS4 Exclusive God of War, has joined Microsoft owned developer inXile development.
- Rymer isn’t the first former God of War developer to join an Xbox development team.
- Xbox is heavily ramping up its fight against PlayStation as it gets closer to the Xbox Series X and PS5 launch.
On Twitter, God of War senior combat designer Dean Rymer confirmed that he had celebrated his first day as the new lead combat designer of inXile Entertainment. InXile Entertainment has been owned by Microsoft since November 2020.
Rymer said that he can’t reveal what he is working on at inXile, however, “everyone will love it.” InXile’s next game is the dark RPG Wasteland 3, but this tweet confirms that Rymer is working on the developer’s next project.
Rymer isn’t the first God of War developer to have moved to a Microsoft owned development team. Microsoft has also hired several former God of War developers for the initiative
God of War is thought of as one of the best PS4 exclusives and one of the biggest reasons to buy the console. There is incredible talent at Sony Santa Monica and it’s no surprise why Microsoft wants to hire so many people who have worked there.
However, this isn’t just about hiring great talent. Microsoft is putting much more resources into staffing up its internal development teams so that it can offer more games for services like Xbox Game Pass.
It also needs many more exclusive games for the Xbox Series X
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