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Crate Entertainment: Console Gamers Want More Sophisticated Action
The Escapist : Latest News — ... Bruno joined with fellow Iron Lore alumnus Eric Campanella to form Crate Entertainment shortly after the shutdown, and in this new venture the pair are working to revive some of the projects Iron Lore was developing when the plug was pulled and bring them to a new audience of Xbox 360 gamers. "One of our real goals is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience," Bruno told Mass High Tech . Work on the game is taking place via a "cooperative arrangement" with independent ...

Console Gamers Want "More Sophisticated" Action
The Escapist : Latest News — ... Bruno joined with fellow Iron Lore alumnus Eric Campanella to form Crate Entertainment shortly after the shutdown, and in this new venture the pair are working to revive some of the projects Iron Lore was developing when the plug was pulled and bring them to a new audience of Xbox 360 gamers. "One of our real goals is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience," Bruno told Mass High Tech . Work on the game is taking place via a "cooperative arrangement" with independent ...

Iron Lore projects come back from the dead
Big Download Blog — ... . A feature article on Crate Entertainment at the Journal of New England Technology web site reveals that one of the two projects is yet another fantasy action-RPG called ...

Crate Entertainment Formed from Iron Lore
GameDaily BIZ Features Feed — Speaking to MHT , Arthur Bruno and Eric Campanella talked about their new venture, Crate Entertainment . The veterans of Iron Lore have purchased two projects from the now defunct developer and are shopping them to publishers. One of the projects is codenamed Black Legion and is set to release on Xbox 360 as an action/RPG. "One of our real goals is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience," said Bruno. "We're trying to evolve the action to something that will ...

Iron Lore Vets in a Crate
Blue's News — Iron Lore vets demo ‘Black Legion’ on The Journal of New England Technology announces Crate Entertainment, a new Cambridge, MA-based studio formed by Arthur Bruno and Eric Campanella, veterans of defunct Iron Lore Entertainment. Crate is currently sharing office space with Demiurge Studios. Word is Crate has purchased two Iron Lore IPs, one for Dark Legion, a console action/RPG in the vein of Titan Quest , and another project they are not discussing at this time. Thanks ...

Crate Entertainment: From The Ashes of Iron Lore
Crispy Gamer | Video Game News, Rumors and Updates — ... in hopes of jump-starting further development. The project they are showing (they aren’t talking about the other at the moment) is an Xbox 360 action RPG called Black Legion , which takes the gameplay from Titan Quest and refines it for a wider audience.“One of our real goals is to take the solid game play we established in Titan Quest and repackage it to make it sort of grittier and more appealing to the mainstream audience,” said former Iron Lore lead designer Arthur Bruno, to Mass High Tech in a conversation about the new game. More on this story and Crate as it develops. ...

Defunct Titan Quest dev lives on as Crate Entertainment
Joystiq — ... Like a phoenix, a new studio has clawed its way out from beneath the corpse of Iron Lore. The dev behind Titan Quest and Warhammer 40K Dawn of War expansion Soulstorm folded last February, citing funding as the chief reason for ...