Left 4 Dead Developer Creates New Triple A Game

Left 4 Dead creators, Turtle Rock Studios, is currently working on a new game title. The upcoming game will be published by Perfect World Entertainment, known for Star Trek Online.

Turtle Rock Studios, the developers behind the popular zombie shooting game, Left 4 Dead, informed that they are currently working on a new original IP triple-A game. According to an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Phil Robb, co-founder of Turtle Rock Studios hinted that the game the studio is currently working on would be another co-op first-person shooting game. No further details were said about what kind of game will it be, except that the game takes on a "dark fantasy theme."

Steve Goldstein, the President and GM of Turtle Rock said that the studio would not call their new game as a successor. "And while we focus on awesome first-person shooting and co-op, we'd rather have the new game be something our players classify and designate and judge without us affixing the label ourselves," said Goldstein. Players can expect lots of things to shoot at but not necessarily "zombies" since the game will push through with a dark fantasy theme. Since it'll be part fantasy, expect creatures from the fantasy genre to appear as enemies or friends.

Turtle Rock Studios is famous for their post-apocalyptic first person shooting game, Left 4 Dead. The studio lost the rights for Left 4 Dead series to Valve. A few years after, they developed a new game titled Evolve. Evolve served as the first major project since their separation from Valve in 2011. The game was delayed, originally set for release in 2014 but was released worldwide in 2015. Earlier this year, Evolve shifted to free-to-play on Steam.  Because of this move, the fanbase for Evolve drastically increased after the shift. However, Turtle Rock Studios announced that they'll be stopping development and support for Evolve immediately.  In the blog post, co-founder Chris Ashton said that the studios don't own Evolve and it wasn't their choice to end their development on Evolve. Servers for Evolve will remain until further announcement.

Also this year, Turtle Rock Studios released an unfinished Left 4 Dead campaign map. Titled "Dam It", the campaign map comes with two standalone survival maps for players to navigate.