Tag: People Can Fly
News Outriders Dev People Can Fly Cancels Multiple Projects, Laying Off 120 Staff
Bookending the year with another round of reduncies
Polish development studio People Can Fly, best known for Outriders and Bulletstorm, is scaling back its ambitions in a major way, announcing the cancellation of multiple projects and the elimination of 120 staff positions. This follows the 30 made redundant in January, and the studio now shares the...
News Outriders Dev People Can Fly Reportedly Hit by Layoffs
Industries' bleak toll rises
People Can Fly, the Polish developer behind games like Outriders and Bulletstorm, is reportedly the latest to be hit by layoffs. Over 30 people have been impacted, all working on an as-yet-unannounced game codenamed Project Gemini, which was to be published by Square Enix. That's according to a report from Kotaku, who...
News Bulletstorm VR Drop-Kicked into January 2024 on PSVR2
The calm before the storm
Announced back in June, People Can Fly is bringing its fan favourite shooter to virtual reality in Bulletstorm VR. Unfortunately, it'll be a little bit longer of a wait than we were expecting — the PSVR2 game has been pushed back to 18th January, 2024. The news came recently via a short statement on social media:...
News Fast-Paced FPS Bulletstorm VR Kick Stomps PSVR2
Guns up
The rapid PS3 first-person shooter Bulletstorm will be bringing its distinct combat style to PSVR2, after being officially announced for Meta Quest 2 during a livestream earlier today. The original, developed by People Can Fly, launched in 2011 on the PS3 – and you can find our original review through here if you dare exploring our...
News Next Game from Outriders, Bulletstorm Dev Loses Publisher, But Work Continues
People Can Fly now expects to self-publish
Bulletstorm and Outriders developer People Can Fly has today confirmed publisher Take-Two intends to "terminate the development and publishing agreement" for its next game, which is codenamed Project Dagger. In a post on the team's official website, the game is described as a "new action-adventure IP" and...
News Bulletstorm, Outriders Dev Working on Second AAA Game for PS5
Said to be ambitious and groundbreaking
Developer People Can Fly clearly isn't satisfied with just working on PlayStation 5 game Outriders because the studio has just announced that it now as a second AAA title in production for next-gen consoles. The team best known for putting out Bulletstorm on PlayStation 3 will develop "a highly ambitious,...
News Epic Games Now Fully Owns Bulletstorm Dev People Can Fly
Big spender
Video game powerhouse Epic Games has completed its purchase of Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly. The announcement follows the departure of three key staff at the Polish studio, including creative director and founder Adrian Chmielarz. "They left, they're going to do their own thing,” Epic Games’ Mark Rein told Joystiq. “They...
News Epic: We'd Love to Do a Bulletstorm Sequel
Nothing to announce yet
A sequel to last year’s adventurous first-person shooter Bulletstorm was in the works at one point, Epic Games’ Mike Capps has announced. Sadly, the follow-up was canned when the company found a project that was considered to be a “better fit” for original developer People Can Fly. What could possibly be better than...
News People Can Fly Were Shocked By The Amount Of Swearing In Their Own Game
The air around People Can Fly's potty-mouthed shooter, Bulletstorm, was blue
But the hilarious thing is, the Polish developer didn't even realise it. Chatting in the October edition of Game Developer's magazine, Adrian Chmielarz said that he couldn't believe the extent of the game's expletives once he saw the game's Polish translation. "Do you...
News Bulletstorm 'Didn't Make Any Money'
Bulletstorm was a critical success when it released earlier in the year, and we'd figured it was a commercial success too
The game spent a number of weeks propping up the UK sales charts, but according to Epic the balls-to-the-wall FPS failed to make the company any money. Despite that small caveat, Epic does not regret handing the project off to...
News First Set Of Bulletstorm DLC, Gun Sonata, Announced
People Can Fly's dudebro shooter, Bulletstorm, is not even out in Europe, but it's not stopping EA from announcing the first batch of DLC
Entitled, Gun Sonata, it features three new maps for the Anarchy multiplayer campaign: the Sewers of Stygia, the ruins of Hotel Elysium, and the Villa. The DLC also includes a couple of new Echoes maps, which are...
News Bulletstorm Demo Kicks People In The Face On January 25th
Bulletstorm looks and sounds stupid
So stupid we've stopped posting the game's nonsense trailers on this site. We get that's part of the game's tone, but we don't like it. We hate it in fact. People calling each other crude names never was, and never will be funny. Still, the media seems to think Bulletstorm's a gameplay is worth a damn. We'll find...
News Bulletstorm Originally Netted Skill Kills From A Third-Person Perspective
Somewhere in developer People Can Fly's archives is a prototype for Bulletstorm where the game played as a third-person cover-based shooter
Producer Tanya Jesson told OXM magazine that the early gameplay was "completely different than it is now," revealing the game had transformed from "a third-person shooter to a cover-based...
News Son Of A Duck! The New Bulletstorm Trailer Is Full On, Yo!
We're not sure what to think of Bulletstorm
On the one hand it looks like a really awesome game. On the other hand it just looks dumb. We're not missing the point, we get that Bulletstorm's intention is to be a bit silly, but some of the voice work is a real turn off. "Pull up your skirt and stap on that dildo." Really? Really? Catch the...
News Bulletstorm Deeper Than We Think, Claims People Can Fly
Going on what we've seen of People Can Fly's Bulletstorm, we'd say it doesn't take itself too seriously
Fun appears to be the main agenda of the FPS, but the game's creative director Adrian Chmielarz reckons it's much more than a "mindless shooter". "The spirit [of Painkiller] is there, yes, he told BigDownload. Painkiller was the...
News Bulletstorm's Boxart Features Boots... Big Boots!
In Bulletstorm you can kick people and chain combos like its Burnout or something
You can also wield a "quad-barrelled shotgun". A game so ridiculous deserves a terrible boxart right? Right. Well, courtesy of GameInformer, here it is — Bulletstorm's boxart. Terrible.</em>
E3 2010 Bulletstorm Shoots Folks In The Face In February 2011
Epic and People Can Fly's ostentatious shooter, Bulletstorm, is due to hit US shelves on February 22nd, 2011, Epic's Cliff Bleszinskis just announced
VG247's got a batch of new screens for you to drool over. The game's big hook is its focus on stylish, kills. It's more "outrageous fun" than "gritty seriousness" — if you get...
News Bulletstorm Looks Properly Amazing In Its First Trailer, Thank Goodness For Non-Gritty Shooters
Thank goodness for EA, Epic Games and People Can Fly, who are about to embark on the first non-super gritty military shooter in what seems like ages
Bulletstorm - a mish-mash of colours, ridiculous guns and a "skill kills" - looks set to bring actual genuine brainless fun back to the FPS genre. And we welcome that with open arms. Boom!
News First Batch Of Bulletstorm Screens Emerge
These first shots of EA, Epic and People Can Fly's Bulletstorm show less the gritty, war torn environments you might have expected, and more tropical locations with ridiculous violence
Needless to say they look rather good. Check out the screens over at Joystiq and watch your excitement soar by, ooh, 100%.
News EA Formally Send Word Of Bulletstorm For Release In 2011
EA's just sent us word of the upcoming People Can Fly and Epic Games title Bulletstorm
The game was sort of revealed over the weekend via a GameInformer cover, but now you can consider the PS3 title official. People Can Fly has created a wildly fun first-person shooter that looks gorgeous running on the latest Unreal Engine 3...
News Bulletstorm Revealed On The Cover Of GameInformer
Coming from EA, Epic Games and the folks over at People Can Fly - Bulletstorm is a new, ambitious first-person shooter heading to the Playstation 3
The game's been teased by various outlets for some time now, but it's finally been revealed on the latest cover of US mag GameInformer. The game's all about Grayson Hunt, the former leader of a black-ops...