Microsoft signs up former C&C developers' game for XBLA

Microsoft has signed up strategy game Skulls Of The Shogun for Xbox Live Arcade. The game has been developed by Haunted Temple Studios which was founded last year by employees laid off from EA's Los Angeles studio after the completion of Command & Conquer 4. "Microsoft totally got our vision and have been fully behind it ever since, and the support we're getting out of them has been seriously as much as I could ever ask for," studio founder Jake Kazdal, who has also worked on Rez, Space Channel 5 and EA's cancelled Spielberg project LMNO, said. "Our extended team is now more powerful than ever!" Microsoft Studios director of first-party Ted Woolsey added: "This studio has kind of the best of both worlds. On the one hand, they practically personify the kind of DIY ethos and independent spirit that's the hallmark of today's most exciting developers. More than that though, it's a studio made up of AAA veterans with incredible resumes. These guys know how to ship great games, and that's huge."

Source: Gamasutra