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"If David Lynch made shooters" is Black Ops veteran David Vondehaar's catchphrase for his new game that isn't a "Call of Duty killer"
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"If David Lynch made shooters" is Black Ops veteran David Vondehaar's catchphrase for his new game that isn't a "Call of Duty killer"

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·19 days ago
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BulletFarm bounce back after being dropped by NetEase Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun / Activision Former Call of Duty: Black Ops designer David Vondehaar is making some kind of shooter for GreaterThan Group - the holding company recently founded by a former NetEase executive, who are also funding development of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. What manner of shootybooty might this be? Well, Vondehaar is making allusions to the work of David Lynch - the beautiful crackpot behind such films and shows as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway, whose impact on videogames extends from Silent Hill to Kentucky Route Zero , but who never, I think, developed a game himself. Vondehaar left Call of Duty studio Treyarch in 2023, co-founding BulletFarm in 2024 with money from NetEase, but NetEase later pulled support in the course of wider corporate book-slashing . Now, BulletFarm have shacked up with Simon Zhu, former NetEase president of global investments and partnerships and the founder of GreaterThan Group.…

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