In May 2022, after Embracer Group announced that they had entered an agreement with Square Enix to acquire Crystal Dynamics, The Initiative confirmed that they would still continue to co-develop the game with the studio.
In the previous 12 months, a substantial number of developers had also left the company, citing a lack of creative autonomy and slow development progress as the reason for their departures. Daniel Neuburger, who had previously directed several Tomb Raider games at Crystal Dynamics, was the game director, until he left The Initiative in February 2022. In September 2021, The Initiative announced they would be partnering with Crystal Dynamics on the game's development. Shortly afterwards, God of War producer Rhonda Cox joined the company as senior producer for the game. In February 2021, Murray left The Initiative to rejoin Insomniac Games. Design director Drew Murray revealed that the game is being envisioned as a spy shooter, and that the studio wants the player character's physicality to play a bigger role than in traditional first-person shooters. According to a source, the game will run on Unreal Engine 4 and feature "various weapons, gadgets, and a camera surveillance system". Plans for the game had already been discussed before Gallagher joined The Initiative, with Xbox head Phil Spencer stating that the game is seen as an opportunity for protagonist Joanna Dark to diversify the Xbox family. Gallagher, who had previously worked on the 2013 Tomb Raider revival, chose to work on a Perfect Dark reboot after Microsoft presented him with a few opportunities.
Perfect Dark is the first project by The Initiative, a Microsoft studio founded in 2018 and headed by Darrell Gallagher.
Perfect Dark will take place in a near future world that has been torn apart by ecological disasters. The game will be a reboot of the Perfect Dark series. It will be published by Xbox Game Studios for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S. Perfect Dark is an upcoming video game that is in development by The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics.
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