The co-director of Deathloop has been appointed as Arkane Lyon’s new studio head.
Dinga Bakabatook on the role of studio director at the company in October, following the departure of former head Romuald Capron.
Bakaba has also retained his position asArkaneLyon’s co-creative director, a role he shares withDeathloopco-director and studio art director Sebastien Mitton.
Arkane Lyon’s new studio head joined the developer in November 2010. He’s credited as a designer and producer on Dishonored and it’s DLCs, as lead designer on Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider, and as game director onWolfenstein: Youngblood.
Bakaba’s predecessorCapron stepped down in Octobershortly after the launch of the studio’s latest game,the critically acclaimed Deathloop, and seven months after Arkane’s parent companyZeniMax Media was acquired by Microsoft.
In VGC’s 5-starDeathloop review, critic Jon Bailes called thePS5andPCtitle “one of the smartest and most outright entertaining games of the year.”
He wrote: “Deathloop is slick and inventive, with a delicious sense of style and humour. It distils Arkane’s hefty systems into something more explicitly playful, then leaves its sparkling cast to run riot in its huge interlocking puzzle of an island.”
Thefirst major Deathloop updatewas released in October, improving “several aspects of the gameplay experience, camera smoothness and NPC behaviors”.
Deathloop will not be available on other consolesuntil at least September 2022, when it can be expected to be released forXboxplatforms including Game Pass.
