With Disney TRON: Catalyst, Bithell Games gets to make a game about games
In today's edition, we have a featured interview with Mike Bithell of Bithell Games on the creation of Disney TRON: Catalyst, plus plenty of news from the likes of Xbox, Bungie, NetEase, and more.
'On the other side of the screen, it all looked so easy...'
Highly-polished licensed games are enjoying a new heyday and it'd be easy to brush a TRON game off as advance marketing for the upcoming Jared Leto-starring film Tron: Ares. Bithell's passion for the series doesn't just represent "brand loyalty," however. In a conversation at Gamescom 2024 over a demo of Catalyst (which is being published by Devolver Digital's new label Big Fan) he explained how with this title, Bithell Games had a chance to make a game set in a world that is itself a video game world—and how he personally wants to make projects that scratch at the edges of what a game "is."
The announcement comes years after the two companies first partnered up, and months after Bungie enacted mass layoffs.
At the end of November, Duncan will oversee Xbox's first-party developers, including Halo Studios, The Coalition, and more.
The hack reportedly contains over 1TB of private information.