Our common readers and followers of the MMO style already know the title of John Smedley. He was the previous head of Sony On-line Leisure for nearly 20 years, overseeing among the studio’s largest video games proper till SOE turned Dawn Video games, not lengthy after which he left the corporate. Then he went indie with an open world OARPG referred to as Hero’s Tune that noticed its growth cancelled, after which he was tapped by Amazon Video games in 2017 to move a brand new on-line sport’s creation earlier than he vacated that submit in 2023.
Two years later, Smedley has determined to resurface on the MMORPG style’s collective radar due to a teaser Twitter submit that contains a photograph of himself and a few different devs – particularly former PlanetSide 2 artistic director Matt Higby and former PlanetSide 2 senior artwork director Tramell Isaac, all three of whom are related to a brand new sport studio referred to as Stealth Mode.
“Can’t wait to disclose what we’ve been engaged on for nearly 2 years,” Smedley writes. “We prefer to make actually massive video games…”
Past that, all we’ve got for clues are what’s proven on the workstation displays, which seem to have map and character belongings for a military-style shooter together with the title and emblem for one thing referred to as Distinct Risk. We suspect extra particulars might be coming quickly, however in the intervening time, that is what we’ve obtained.
Can’t wait to disclose what we’ve been engaged on for nearly 2 years. @planetside2 followers may acknowledge Matt Higby and Tramell Isaac. We prefer to make actually massive video games.. pic.twitter.com/trrT5SXNGL
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) March 26, 2025
