“Our Games Are Missing Female Characters”: Phil Spencer Talks About Relaunching Perfect Dark For Xbox Series X | S

Head of the gaming division of the corporation Microsoft Phil Spencer commented on the development of the restart of the franchise Perfect dark from the studio The Initiative… The top manager focused on the fact that the central character of the series is a female character – Joanna Dark. This should have a positive impact on the portfolio. Xbox Game Studiosbecause it so happened that in Microsoft games there are not many female heroines

“I think it’s great that we can now pay attention to the female character. In games from our internal studios, female heroines are missing. Joanna’s existence provides developers with a whole layer of relevant opportunities to work with the image of a strong heroine,” Spencer said.

The Perfect Dark relaunch was announced for Xbox Series X | S and PC with a short teaser in December 2023. According to rumors, the game may come out in 2023

The Perfect Dark franchise was launched by the studio Rare with the support of the company Nintendo in 2000 on the console Nintendo 64… The main series consists of two first-person shooters about the adventures of bounty hunter Joanna Dark.

The original Perfect Dark scored 97 out of 100 on Metacritic.

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