Colantonio syntes det var på tide å trappe ned

Forrige uke kunne Raphael Colantonio annonsere at han forlater Arkane Studios, et utviklerstudio han grunnla for nesten 20 år siden. Etter denne annonseringen møtte vi ham på Gamelab i Barcelona, og avgangen hans var det første vi snakket om:

"I need to get some time off to decide really what I want to do next. I've been doing these games for such a long time now, and I just want to take a real long vacation, which I never had a chance to have in 18 years."

Han forteller også at han forlater selskapet for å kunne "focus on my own projects, on my son, you know, on playing music; smaller things that are just going to make me happy."

Han hadde følgende beskjed til fansen:

"Arkane has been around for 18 years, we've had ups and downs, and it's really part of the - I wouldn't say even ups and downs, I would say lefts and rights - it's part of the industry, it's part of the process. And, you know, 18 years after that, it's time for me to leave."

"It doesn't mean that things are not going keep going with Arkane. Zenimax and Bethesda are very confident in the capacity of Arkane to make great games, and the guys at Arkane are very capable.

"I'll be around for a while, and I wish everybody the best, and I'm sure there's many more Arkane games to play, and I'll be one of their first fans."

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