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Respawn Entertainment Launches Website With Blurry Image, Baseless Rumors of Dinosaurs Run Amok

Time to get out the magnifying glass and the Photoshop sharpen filter.

Respawn Entertainment has sent its biggest sign that it's coming together as a studio with the launch of its website, complete with a blurry image, the first peek at its unannounced game.

At first glance, the image tells us nothing, but if there's something to be parsed besides a gloomy sky and what I think is a farm building, that's for Internet sleuths smarter than me to figure out.

(I'm hoping people rampantly speculating that they see dinosaurs comes true.)

Respawn was founded by ex-Infinity Ward leaders Vince Zampella and Jason West, who are still embroiled in a complicated lawsuit with Activision, who owns Infinity Ward. Unless a settlement comes down the pipe later this year, it's expected the lawsuit will head to trial in early 2012.

The only other bit of information we know about Respawn's game comes from EA Games president Frank Gibeau, who told CVG back at E3 that Respawn was working on a sci-fi shooter.

What? Exactly.
What? Exactly.
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@Robitt said:

You play as an landscape architect.

That is near-sighted.

Fucking lol'd.

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@ajamafalous said:

@Robitt said:

You play as an landscape architect.

That is near-sighted.

Fucking lol'd.

Same reaction!

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Well, at least this shooter has dinosaurs in it. You won, internet.

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Fox's Terra Nova, the game.

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@loopy_101:

We don't even have a name and you're saying that without gameplay the announcement is useless? Blurry images are cool puzzles for fans to solve and its great for marketing, also the "halo killer" phrase is simply used as hype and is also good marketing. The best games of all time have done this exact type of marketing and they keep gameplay close to the vest.

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Just like Propaganda, they decided to found a new studio based on making a new Turok game. Kids like dinosaurs, right??

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These kind of teasers, countdowns, countdowns to countdowns are just so effin stupid, just say what you're working on already ffs, or don't say anything at all....

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Dinosaurs vs Bladerunner

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The green grass and the big mountains (...or at least what I assume are grass and mountains) make it look fantasy-y to me. Hope I'm right, I'd love a good fantasy FPS. Fantasy's kiiiiiiinda sci fi.

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Brown and Grey confirmed! 
 
So happy you guys have earned complete creative freedom from COD, so you could bring us this 100% unique, exciting vision of....another shooter awash in brown and grey! HOORAY! You guys are, truly, game design masterminds.
 
On a non-sarcastic note, there's no way there are dinosaurs involved in this thing. These guys couldn't come up with an idea that good if it bit 'em on the a**. Why do something new and exciting when you know how to do only one thing? Rip off military movies and make a game about shooting soldiers? Heck, to the guys who shepherded Call of Duty through too many annualized sequels, making a game with ZOMBIES in it would be a creative step forward...

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I think there are hands holding binoculars just out of frame at the bottom. And an antenna between them and the camera, out the right. About to call in an airstrike?

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Good to know work is underway, too bad we probably won't know anything solid for awhile.

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YO I BET IT HAS GUNS.

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I wonder if they licensed the old TGIF show Dinosaurs.  That baby was hilarious.

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To me I see a factory hidden in the mountains...

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Left of it is a destroyed building, the rest is some harbor-lookin' thing. 
 
Or I don't know. Maybe it's a first-person sequel to Outpost.

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Clearly Respawn read that famous 4chan thread and realized that dinosaurs are the secret sauce missing from modern FPS games.

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Persona 5

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Respawn said that this game is going to be a sci fi shooter and i can see some sort of sci fi images in this if you look carefully 

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Is that Devil's Tower in the background? It's going to be a Close Encounters of the Third Kind game.

This screenshot means something. Duders, this screenshot is important.

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It's a spiritual successor to Turok. Callin' it.

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Looks to me like a drab modern military shooter.

Great work Respawn! You've cracked the formula.

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@Blair said:

Dinosaurs. It's going to be dinosaurs.

Sci-fi dinosaurs of course.

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Dinosaurs with perks. 

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@patrickklepek said:

@Blair said:

Dinosaurs. It's going to be dinosaurs.

Please be true.

Thirded. I could go for a good game with dinosaurs right about now. I'm gonna get Jurassic Park, but it really seems like more of an interactive movie than a game. Still, BttF was great, so I have faith in Telltale resurrecting classic Universal titles.

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@alex said:

It's a giant statue of a dick. Obviously.

Rubbish. It's the great Dickosaurus.

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@luce said:
Looks like a factory mill or something
This
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I was told there would be dinosaurs. I see a warehouse.

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Is it the ps3 version? cause it is a bit blurry.

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Dinos would be awesome. Dinos & Guns & Tits & Fish with Tits. Tittyfish!

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oh, so a AAA version of Dino D-day?

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If it's a sci-fi game with dinosaurs, we're in Barney.
 
Barney RUBBLE.
 
Trouble! 
 
Yeah, I don't think so.  The dinosaur thing probably started out as a joke because of Dino D-Day or something, although I could see them deciding to put some dinosaur thing in there as a joke if the rumor caught on enough.

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@Forum_User: The only person allowed to speak Cockney on Giant Bomb is Brad.

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If it's not dinosaurs I'm going to be really disappointed now.

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Call of Dino: Mesozoic Warfare?

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I'm picturing more of a Machu Picchu-styled layout here, with some scattered buildings that MAY or MAY NOT be destroyed. The center of the piece looks to be a lodge or a factory, with either a smokestack or a chimney.

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Dinosaurs are sexy I am all in.

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It's going to be a biblical game where you answer trivia questions based on the Old and New Testament. It's really the only possible answer, if you think about it.
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NESSIE!!! :D

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@Jamsque said:

Oh, Respawn is making Blur 2.

Ha!
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@SPCTRE said:

Call of Dino: Mesozoic Warfare?

Yes.

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It's a FPS where you play as a guy with really bad eyesight.

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Or maybe even squinting down gun sights.
Or maybe even squinting down gun sights.
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Guys, it's Farmville.