Uncharted Series' Amy Hennig Confirms Leaving EA Back in January, Starts Her Own Indie Studio

[Raevenlord]

After EA shuttered Visceral Studios, who where working on a new, linear, single-player Star Wars videogame, Amy Hennig's situation never was cleared up by the publisher. Doubts remained on whether the developer, best known for her work at Naughty Dog with the Uncharted series, was still attached, in any capacity, to the newly-pivoted development of the aforementioned Star Wars videogame in EA Vancouver. Now, at the Gamelab conference in Barcelone, the air has been cleared: Amy Hennig has confirmed she hasn't been working with EA since January of this year. And the linear, single-player experience she was developing has been shelved by EA.

Hennig says that she is staying independent, now, and is in the process of setting up her own indie studio - and is likely taking a VR spin with her next creations. We wish her all the best, and hope that the indie liberty gives her enough room - and funds - to develop that dying breed of videogames that is the solo kind. Meanwhile, Henig's also confirmed that EA Vancouver's pivoting of the Star Wars videogame is reworking it into a - can you guess? - open world approach that is barely recognizable from her own work - so it does seem a game in the likes of Destiny and Anthem will be the end product.



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[Laurijan]

I hope she can make her vision real without EA interfering and trashing a promising star wars game. single player natitive games are not dead. look god of war 2018

 

[entropic]

While i don't know uncharted because i do not own a console i am intimately familiar with her work on the blood omen / legacy of kain series, i was always impressed by the quality of dialogues, especially in the first two games, if she brings that kind of quality storytelling and writing to some new games that might come to pc ? sign me up anytime

 

[phanbuey]

EA continuing to be the dumpster fire we know it to be.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

So many developers moved to VR yet I don't see any evidence that any of them were profitable. So few people own VR headsets and development costs for VR are greater than non-VR games.

 

[Vayra86]

VR? Well... it was nice not knowing ya, I guess. Worst career move of the century?

 

[XiGMAKiD]

I wish her good luck on the venture into VR, although I doubt she'll make VR any more interesting

 

[Vya Domus]

Until VR is going to be very cheap and as easy to put on like a normal pair of glasses all these people will be wasting their careers.