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 twenty years, overseeing a few of the studio’s greatest video games proper till SOE grew to become Dawn Video games, not lengthy after which he left the corporate. Then he went indie with an open world OARPG often known as Hero’s Tune that noticed its improvement cancelled, after which he was tapped by Amazon Video games in 2017 to go a brand new on-line recreation’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 picture of himself and a few different devs – particularly former PlanetSide 2 inventive director Matt Higby and former PlanetSide 2 senior artwork director Tramell Isaac, all three of whom are related to a brand new recreation studio often known as Stealth Mode.
“Can’t wait to disclose what we’ve been engaged on for nearly 2 years,” Smedley writes. “We wish to make actually massive video games…”
Past that, all now we have for clues are what’s proven on the workstation screens, which seem to have map and character property for a military-style shooter together with the title and emblem for one thing often known as Distinct Risk. We suspect extra particulars can be coming quickly, however in the intervening time, that is what we’ve bought.
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 wish to make actually massive video games.. pic.twitter.com/trrT5SXNGL
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) March 26, 2025
