Hi-Fi Rush Dev Tango Gameworks 'Remains Dedicated to Distinctive and New IPs,' as It Starts Hiring for New Action Game

Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks has unveiled its new-look website and confirmed its moving connected an "unannounced enactment game."

The tract — which shows caller branding and a careers leafage recruiting for caller roles for an unannounced task — states Tango Gameworks' halfway ngo is to "create caller games and grow intelligence properties" arsenic an "independent improvement workplace based successful Tokyo, Japan" nether the Krafton umbrella.

In May 2024, Microsoft announced it had closed a fig of Bethesda studios, including Tango Gameworks and Redfall's Arkane Austin. The quality was met with daze and choler by developers and fans alike, particularly aft Microsoft enforcement Aaron Greenberg had antecedently said Hi-Fi Rush was a "breakout deed for [Xbox] and [its] players successful each cardinal measurements and expectations."

PUBG steadfast Krafton past acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP from Microsoft backmost successful August 2024, redeeming the workplace from being unopen down. Krafton shared the quality successful a property merchandise alongside confirming that, "as portion of this strategical agreement, Krafton intends to collaborate with Xbox and ZeniMax to guarantee a creaseless modulation and support continuity astatine Tango Gameworks, allowing the talented squad to proceed processing the Hi-Fi Rush IP and research aboriginal projects."

"Finally, aft months of waiting, Tango Gameworks is back, and successful a brand-new way," the studio's caller website states. "We’ve opened our tract to springiness our fans and aboriginal squad members a look into our studio. Here you tin larn astir the workplace philosophy, arsenic good arsenic spot featurettes from members of the team.

"Since joining Krafton, Tango Gameworks embarks connected a caller chapter, processing titles that resonate with players astir the world," the institution added. "We stay dedicated to the instauration and maturation of distinctive and caller IPs, taking connected challenges to beryllium a unsocial dependable successful the crippled industry."

Tango added that its imaginativeness is "centered connected a workplace that acts similar a originative workshop, making games and experiences that stress that 'hand-made' consciousness we enactment into our work."

As for what that caller crippled whitethorn be? That's hard to telephone close now. A quality station published earlier contiguous says Tango "aren’t acceptable to uncover overmuch yet," but "has a fig of positions unfastened for aboriginal enactment connected an unannounced enactment game."

"The positions span astir each department, truthful if you are funny successful moving with the squad down specified deed releases arsenic Hi-Fi Rush, work up connected our workplace philosophy." According to a instrumentality translation of the senior-level decorator position, Tango is looking for idiosyncratic with "experience processing 3D enactment games" successful Unreal Engine 5. The cutscene manager occupation likewise calls for 3D enactment crippled experience, but doesn't springiness america immoderate different clues for now. Could it beryllium Hi-Fi Rush 2?

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