Jake Solomon, director of XCOM and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, has decided after a very long time leave Firaxis Games to go his own way with a new studio that will not aim to produce a new turn-based strategy game, a genre that has always been very good at it.
Salomon’s departure was announced a few weeks ago and both parties agree with the decision. On the creative side, his idea is to focus on different things that can give him a different projection. Firaxis, however, will also suffer the loss of Steve Martin, study directorwhich can lead to difficult times in the studio.
The future of XCOM without its director
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At Firaxis Games, Solomon invented many big hits, perhaps the biggest being the return of the XCOM franchise, but despite that, according to what he said on a podcastthe future of the creative is far from the genre that made him famous, it is, in his words, because wants a complete change of scenery do something new where I’m in charge of everything.
We’ll have to see what happens with the future of XCOM without Solomon, especially that of XCOM 3, a title that would be officially announced shortly.
Gabriel Fuentes
Translator and localizer of video games passionate about retro titles and simulators. He’s never let go of a controller since he was given an Atari 2600.
