The two former project leads for the now-canceled Perfect Dark reboot have set up a new studio under the auspices of publisher 2K, it's been revealed.
According to Jason Schreier over on Bluesky, former The Initiative studio head Darrell Gallagher and Perfect Dark director Brian Horton have started a new development company, and it'll be a subsidiary of 2K (itself a publishing label for parent company Take-Two).
Speaking to IGN, a 2K spokesperson said the company is "thrilled" to welcome Gallagher and Horton to its ranks, and that, while it doesn't have any additional information to share now, it looks forward to sharing more about the new studio "in the future".
In case you need a reminder, Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot was canceled earlier this year, and its developer The Initiative was shut down into the bargain.
The game's cancellation and the studio's shutdown were part of a larger wave of layoffs at Microsoft, with around 9,000 employees losing their jobs, including staffers at subsidiaries like Candy Crush Saga's King and Bethesda's parent ZeniMax.
Legendary studio Rare was also among the companies hit by the wave of layoffs, and the long-in-development Everwild was canceled as...
