Fulgore is coming soon
Microsoft Studiosneeded to finda new development partner to work onKiller Instinctafter Amazon went and acquired Double Helix Games, and its selection has turned out to be spot on.DivekickandStreet Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Editiondeveloper Iron Galaxy will pick up where the original studio left off for a second season ofKiller Instinctcontent.
Speaking toPolygon, Iron Galaxy CEO Dave Lang said the company had previously pitched its take onKiller Instinctto Microsoft back before Double Helix was chosen but it wasn’t staffed to work on it andWreckateersimultaneously. “It’s, like, the one that got away,” he explained.
Continuing, Lang said “If we were going to work on this game and go, ‘Oh, we want to change everything,’ if we were in that position, it’d be a mess. I’m not sure if we would have taken the gig. What they have is not [broken]. What they have is amazing, and it’s good, and we just want to layer new stuff on top of that that keeps the pace intact.”
In the more immediate future,Killer Instinctis getting the character we’ve all been waiting for it to get, Fulgore, on April 9 in a season-one update that also includes Arcade Mode.
Killer Instinct gets a new developer, Fulgore title update arrives April 9[Polygon]
