Guerrilla Games has just added a new member to its ranks. Giles Armstrong, formerly of Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Thief) has announced via his official Twitter account that he’s joined the Dutch-based studio responsible for games like the Killzone series and the excellent Horizon Zero Dawn. As a result, however, Armstrong will be leaving his role as co-founder/co-director of Tale Spinners, a collective of coders, designers, directors, and writers based in the UK and Canada that help people with game writing, narrative design, setting & characters, and much more. (Check the official website for the full list of services.)
Armstrong sat as Tale Spinners’ co-founder/co-director for two years before accepting the role at Guerrilla Games’ Amsterdam headquarters. Tale Spinner’s has helped create and edit a plethora of games, with the latest being The Spectrum Retreat, which is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with the Nintendo Switch version launching sometime later this summer. (It’s worth noting that we reviewed The Spectrum Retreat and gave it a 5/10, saying, “The narrative and gameplay combined together detract from the experience of one another, resulting in something decent at best and eye-roll inducing at worst. The Spectrum Retreat really went for it, but a swing and a miss is still a miss.”)
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