Certain Affinity has announced that it’s working on an original first-person shooter codenamed Loro.
The studio’s CEO, Max Hoberman, said the company has been pitching the title behind closed doors atGamescomthis week.
“Our playable demo put a lot of smiles on people’s faces,” hetweeted. We tell everyone the project codename, and it’s bound to get out, so let me be the first. Say hello to Loro, a working title for our original FPS.”
Based in Austin, Texas, Certain Infinity is a prolific support studio founded in 2006 by Hoberman, who was formerly multiplayer and online lead atBungie.
It has collaborated on over 30 products and across more than a dozen franchises, including instalments in theHaloand Call of Duty series, as well as Left 4 Dead and Doom.
Last September,Certain Affinity appointed veteran industry executive Paul Samsas the studio’s president and chief operating officer.
Sams previously spent 20 years atBlizzard, where he held multiple roles including COO, and was later CEO at The Order: 1886 and Lone Echo studio Ready at Dawn.
“I am excited to partner with Paul and our key leaders to guide our company’s evolution to being both a world-class co-developer and a world-class lead developer—and ultimately toCertain Affinitybecoming a household name,” Hoberman said at the time.
In 2021, Certain Affinity said it had signed an agreement to lead development on an original IP which Hoberman called its “most ambitious title to date”.
It was later claimed that the studio wasworking on a Monster Hunter-style co-op title for Xbox Game Studios.
And last September, Certain Affinity said it had close to 100 people working onHalo Infinite,leading development on “something big and new for the franchise”.
