As you will recall, during the last E3 Microsoft announced, in addition to the acquisition of new first-party studios, the birth of The Initiative,a study created to create extremely ambitious titles. Since then there have been many important recruitments of the new studio, with prominent figures coming, to name a few, from Rockstar Games and Crystal Dynamics.

Although The Initiative has already incorporated several talents, it seems that the number of personalities of the team is set to rise. Among the new arrivals is Chris O'Neill,, lead designer of Sony's latest God of War and known for working at Sony Santa Monica and Kojima Productions,who updated his LinkedIn page indicating that he is currently working on The Initiative.

In addition to O'Neill, The Initiative has also recently hired Joe Stinchcomb, senior technical art director at Rockstar North and Crystal Dynamics, Andrameda Martine (ExecutiveProducer at Sledgehammer Games), David Wyka (headof recruitment at Rooster Teeth) and Irma Ward (Associate Editorin Activision).

These new hires only confirm the fact that Microsoft is strengthening the team and is working to create titles that can compete with the biggest current productions: we can't wait to find out what it is!