Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has left the studio

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Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has left the company.

On a recent visit to the Cambridge, UK-based studio for a Hellblade 2 preview, Polygon noted that there was no sign or mention of Antoniades, who was formerly the company's chief creative director.

A spokesperson for Xbox, which owns the studio, later confirmed to the site that Antoniades was no longer with the developer.
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While he worked on numerous games at Ninja Theory, Antoniades notably served as writer-director on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DmC: Devil May Cry and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

He was involved in the early stages of Hellblade 2, but the game is now being led by three creative leads: environment art director Dan Attwell, visual effects director Mark Slater-Tunstill, and audio director David Garcia.

Microsoft and Ninja Theory announced Hellblade 2 alongside the Xbox Series X console in 2019.
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The schizo walking sim from next month is gonna come and go like it never happened. Overhyped trash, how MS could let this develop for 6years it is unreal. Such a shame, this is the company that made DmC Devil May Cry which was cool.
 
Terrible sign, it isn't often a studio is to able flourish once someone so important leaves. Take BioWare for example, since the doctors left that studio hasn't released a single compelling videogame.
 
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YOU PC BRO?! said:
Terrible sign, it isn't often a studio is to able flourish when someone so important leaves. Take BioWare for example, since the doctors left that studio hasn't released a single compelling videogame.
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Yup. Or for another recent MS acquisition, look at Arkane. They lost their founders too and their games have turned to shit as well.
 
Bahaha maybe now the studio will lose the pretention and masturbatory interviews, and lets not forget shitting on fanbases.
Also guys, his insta pics are pure cringe, dont envy him, dont applaud him, the guy is a total prick.
 
Wasn't this the guy everyone hated and clowned on when DmC was being marketed and released?
Now the studio is apparently doomed without him, make up your mind internet.
 
Braag said:
Wasn't this the guy everyone hated and clowned on when DmC was being marketed and released?
Now the studio is apparently doomed without him, make up your mind internet.
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I enjoyed DmC quite a bit but yes, a lot of people hated on it. Particularly the edgelord version of Dante.
 
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Never a good sign when your co-founder of your studio/director/writer leaves before the game is released.


I wonder what he saw that made him leave before the game was out. I'm also wondering why MS kept quiet about this and kept it a secret.
 
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Guess he got the bag, served his contractual post-acquisition time and now its party time!

Not a fan of the guy, but fair play to him. That's the smart move.
 
Happens all the time I guess. Only thing I find weird is that not a single thing was said about it. Now that doesn't ever seem to happen.
 
FIREKNIGHT2029 said:
I'm also wondering why MS kept quiet about this and kept it a secret.
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Came in to say this.

It's extremely unusual for someone this high-ranked to leave without any kind of news coming out. Not necessarily nefarious, but unusual.

I have a guess of mine about why it happened that way, but I'm not sure it's appropriate to publicly speculate about it.
 
I watched plenty of behind-the-scenes development footage of Hellblade. It was clear that Antoniades was the main creative force behind that game -- he had the vision, the sensibility to try to do it right, and the passion.

I'm not sure why he decided to leave the studio. My hunch is that he was too much of a "creative" type to live under MS direction. He must have been in good shape financially after MS bought the studio. Maybe he decided he'd rather do something else than work under MS. But I'm just speculating.
 
Dude seems like too much of a playboy... creative sure but he seems to take too long with the creative process. MS wants more games out through the year so there was probably a clash here and he decided to leave. Hopefully the studio hangs in there and continues to do well, they've made some awesome stuff.
 
Good on him. We can see who he really was. He might return with another studio. Guy was a real character.
 
I enjoyed watching interviews with him over the years. He always sounded like a pretentious, esoteric bullshit kind of a guy but obviously a talented writer and game designer. Judging by the instagram videos here, he dropped all the goth guru pretence and just went into full cocaine party mode. Good for him!
 
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I enjoyed watching interviews with him over the years. He always sounded like a pretentious, esoteric bullshit kind of a guy but obviously a talented writer and game designer. Judging by the instagram videos here, he dropped all the goth guru pretence and just went into full cocaine party mode. Good for him!
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Talented game designer? :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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