SONY� and Rockstar Games have spectacularly sold the rights to what was to be their most adventurous franchise ever - AGENT, A 1970's espionage themed PS3 Exclusive.
Norwegian alcoholic drinks giant Loof Lirpa� who's main business up until now had been as the country's biggest exporter of whiskey based beverages has bowed to pressure from it's investor's to move into the videogames market.
Loof Lirpa� CEO Olaf Bj�rn-Erik told Time Magazine, "Having been the leading supplier of alcoholic beverages to teenager's throughout the world our investor's feel we are in as good a position as anyone to begin producing videogames. We know what teenager's want and having done our research into the videogames market we decided to approach SONY� with an offer for Rockstar North's cold war spy game AGENT. After some debate over finances we finally agreed to settle the deal at 276.720092 million Norwegian kroner ($50m)."
Asked to explain how they are going to find AAA class developers to take on the project he replied "We will take on 120 staff who were working on The Agency game which fortunately for us, fell through and produced lay-offs at SONY� (source here) recently."
Pushed further to elaborate on the game's plot he said "AGENT will still keep to it's original storyline where the player takes on the role of a cold war spy agent seeking missing nukes that have fallen into the hands of international terrorists. They will experience amazing action scenes set against the backdrops of 1970's Moscow, Cairo, London and a yet to be added middle eastern country where the game's grand finale will play out. We expect a release date of Q2 2012 on PS3 and Xbox360 followed by a PC version later in the year."
It is understood SONY� and Take-Two Interactive will make a joint statement regarding the matter later in the week.
Rockstar North are now believed to be moving onto a new franchise involving a sea borne adventure called 'The Pirates Chest'.
Reply With Quote