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After Announcing Perfect Dark Reboot, Senior Dev Drew Murray Leaves Xbox For Sony Studio

Drew Murray has re-joined Insomniac Games to work on something new.

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Game developer Drew Murray was one of the first employees of the Xbox studio The Initiative, which recently announced a Perfect Dark reboot, but now he's on the move. After leaving The Initiative some time ago, Murray has now announced he has joined Insomniac Games as a Principal Designer.

This is a homecoming of sorts, as Murray previously worked at Insomniac from 2005-2015. During his time there he contributed to Resistance: Fall of Man, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Resistance 2, and Resistance 3. His final position at Insomniac during his first run with the company was game director on Sunset Overdrive.

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Murray worked at The Initiative as a lead designer and design director for more than two years. The Initiative announced its first game, a Perfect Dark reboot, in December 2020.

Insomniac Games is on a hot streak. The studio released Marvel's Spider-Man in 2018, which was recently followed up by Spider-Man: Miles Morales, both of which were big hits. The company's next game is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart for PS5, which launches in June.

In 2019, Sony spent more than $200 million to acquire Insomniac Games to make them a first-party studio. Insomniac does not have any future titles that have been announced yet.

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Wololoooo...

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it'll be nice if he finish this 1st before moving, now people who follow him, some might be sour about him abandon this project for a another one.

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Welcome back to the best side!

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This is an unfortunate title for this story which only stokes the fanboyism in the comments. He did not leave Xbox FOR Sony. He wanted either a change in responsibilities or location due to personal reasons.

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A new Resistance PS5 fps game confirmed :-)

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Please keep the comments civil, The reason for joining Insomniac over going back to Microsoft is unknown.

Congrats to Drew Murray

Speculation can suggest a multitude of reasons, the most obvious being responsibility, the job at Insomniac is significantly less stressful, something Drew might need after Losing his brother in December.

Hope all the best to Drew in the future.

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@fupws: I just don't see why anyone cares. People tend to treat these sort of things like they are traitors to the state or as if they are outed as a double-agent or something. It's game development. It's not that serious, or important.

Someone got a new job "Ok".

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@skyhighgam3r: I care how Perfect Dark turns out. I'm not upset about this guy leaving one studio for another. It's that he had a major role in developing Perfect Dark, essentially a half finished game at this point.

So if there is any legitimate reason to be upset, it's that a game with a legacy tied to one of the most influential games of all time just lost its project lead. With that said, I'm sure The Initiative made this as smooth transition as possible.

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@Blade_Runner_07: I figure if they are incapable of making a great game because of 1 contributor, the game is gonna suck anyway.

For what it's worth though, I'm pretty hopeful about this project. I just hope the rumors of it being third-person are true.

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@skyhighgam3r: Right on. I don't mind a third-person option, but I don't mind that option in Halo Infinite either. I mean, I don't expect it but it's a whole new engine for both series so who knows.

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@fupws: Thank you. I would like to know what happened though.

I'm hoping Perfect Dark will be a great game when it launches. Sounds like he was working on it for nearly two years before it was branded Perfect Dark' so being an advocate for the artist, I hope the branding wasn't what drove him away.

I just want the full story because a month ago it sounded like he was taking a long hiatus for personal reasons. Now he's back at work, but not on his half-finished project.

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@fupws: ppl won't unfortunately. but i agree with you 100 percent

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