Rumor: Raven Software Working On New James Bond Game

Here's a fun rumor. According to a report from James Bond fansite M16, Raven Software is behind the helm of a new stealth-oriented James Bond title... for the second time.
 
Initial work on this Raven-developed Bond game apparently kicked off as a separate team at the studio finished up work on Singularity. The Bond team wouldn't see their game finished, however. MI6 says Activision put the breaks on the project and assigned the team to a "series" of map packs for BLOPs, following the fall of Bond studio MGM. Now, in light of recent news that MGM's bankruptcy plan has been approved, Activision is letting the Bond team continue its work on this supposed Bond project. It's left unsaid, but we suppose those map packs have since been finished, which would seemingly make this possible (provided this rumor is true). 
 

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 edit: at long last  plus this could be good :) hopefully nightfire 2:):)

kabloom 

So is the James Bond games the new Guitar Hero? Given to "soon to be closed studios?"

This I can get excited for!!

something to do i guess

Well the animator could have done contract work for Bizarre Creations. Studios within the same publisher don't exist in a vacuum. But I do hope Activision isn't making a Bond game for the sake of making a Bond.  
 
I fear for Raven's future D:

Great. been nice knowing you, Raven.

Hearing any game is put on hold to make mappacks for a totally unrelated game makes me weep.

I thought Singularity was awesome.  
I haven't enjoyed a James Bond game since the Gamecube.  
I dislike Activision.  

Are people really blind enough to buy a James Bond game sight-unseen in the hundreds of thousands? Assuming it'll be mediocre at best of course. Didn't Activision fail at this strategy like a month ago?

There is a new facebook video in Ravens profile with some footage of  their MoCap team, it is more a "merry Christmas message", though. It could actually make sense. I would be looking forward to it, Raven's never disappointed me.

It looks like Activision is making another good business decision by sticking with the brand name games that will actually sell. Singularity was good but didn't sell as expxected, so If Raven is unsuccessful with this Bond game they should be shutdown.

"   Are people really blind enough to buy a James Bond game sight-unseen in the hundreds of thousands? Assuming it'll be mediocre at best of course. Didn't Activision fail at this strategy like a month ago? "

Goodbye Raven Software.

" Well the animator could have done contract work for Bizarre Creations. Studios within the same publisher don't exist in a vacuum. But I do hope Activision isn't making a Bond game for the sake of making a Bond.   I fear for Raven's future D: "

Better than being stuck doing COD map packs. 
 
Also goodbye, Raven.

" It looks like Activision is making another good business decision by sticking with the brand name games that will actually sell. Singularity was good but didn't sell as expxected, so If Raven is unsuccessful with this Bond game they should be shutdown. "

Yeah. Because Blood Stone was such a hit.

Yay for Activision killing A BRAND - Raven Software. Because they've made themselves enough of a name to be considered a valuable player in the biz and shutting them down because they've failed to deliver sales with a game based on a movie franchise without any movie support is fucking DUMB.

I hope that it turns out to be a solid Bond game... but yeah.

" Goodbye Raven Software. "

I've written a haiku about Activision:
 
Talent means nothing;
Mass market, motherfuckers;
Gold pants for Bobby.

activision sucks ass.
 
who made the new goldeneye for the wii?

They're really trying to capitalize on that license.

" who made the new goldeneye for the wii? "

hopefully it will be better than blood stone

I wish they'd just make an X-Men Legends 3.

Wasted potential.

these are the wroooong people to be working on what's going to be a T-rated franchise installment.

@FuzzYLemoN That was beautiful, truly beautiful!

Isn't Raven already in trouble after Singularity? But hey, it's not like Activision doesn't like to give people a chance to make another crummy game before kicking them out into the cold, i mean,look at Robomodo!

It was a good run, Raven.

Does anyone even want another James Bond video game?  Honestly that franchise in general (like Star Wars) was always kinda ass with very few exceptions.  
 
Why are people railing on Activision of exercising its decision-making powers as a business?  What do you expect?  They do something for the good of video games just because?  No publisher does that, none.  A positive means may be more or less successful but they're all means to the same end: success.  Activision using its clout decided the corporate method works for them and turns out they make bank so they're gonna keep doing it.  If Raven doesn't like it, they don't have to keep working there because fuck I think they can get away with saying they didn't like working at Activision (at least the people, not the name Raven itself).

Looks like Raven will be the next studio to be shut down.

I don't think the world needs James Bond anymore. The people he fights aren't the world's enemies anymore. During the Cold War, we used James Bond to explore the terrors of technology and to watch a a man singlehandedly diffuse disasters the likes of which often rivaled the thermonuclear warfare we were trying so desperately to avoid. In the 90's, Brosnan's bond is famed for being a technofetishist, using and fighting the gadgets society was at that time afraid of creating. 
 
Daniel Craig's James Bond is sort of a psychoanalysis of the phenomenon that was James Bond; what could possibly drive a man to kill the way Bond always has, and do it with such dry wit and lack of compassion? Thing is, humanizing Bond is not what people want from the character; we want him to prove to us that through ingenuity and good faith, we can eliminate the foe that frightens the world most. Right now, in America at least, that's probably terrorism. Most places, it's probably still thermonuclear warfare, and he's fought that enough times over the years now.
 
Bond really can't fight terrorism for its own sake. He's fought profiteers, assassins, heist-masters, and extremely powerful lunatics before, but there's a reason we don't often send him to the jungle, urban or organic. His skills, outside of the older trapmaster Bonds, don't help him there. Especially with Daniel Craig, the strengths of Bond lie in fighting guards, doing research and espionage, and tracking people. If he doesn't know who he's looking for, and the people he's looking for are as alert and stealthy as he is, he's not really the right man for the job. The man to fight guerilla warfare singlehanded is more of a Master Chief type, as we've seen in levels like Sierra 117 or Outskirts. They need to be so tough that it doesn't matter who's got the drop on who; he's tougher, so he wins in a one-on-one.  
 
What's there to be done with him? Well, they could go the route of Uncharted and send him after people with interest in the occult. He could still be stealthy and dry as he assaults their information, though there's less room for Bond's sexuality in these ventures. Alternatively, send him after Kim Jong Il types. Otherwise...well, I said it already. I don't think the world needs Bond anymore.

" I don't think the world needs James Bond anymore. "

singularity was great
It's does probably make more business sense to pump out a bond game tho

The kiss of death.

quantum of solace was a great game

" I don't think the world needs James Bond anymore. The people he fights aren't the world's enemies anymore. During the Cold War, we used James Bond to explore the terrors of technology and to watch a a man singlehandedly diffuse disasters the likes of which often rivaled the thermonuclear warfare we were trying so desperately to avoid. In the 90's, Brosnan's bond is famed for being a technofetishist, using and fighting the gadgets society was at that time afraid of creating.  Daniel Craig's James Bond is sort of a psychoanalysis of the phenomenon that was James Bond; what could possibly drive a man to kill the way Bond always has, and do it with such dry wit and lack of compassion? Thing is, humanizing Bond is not what people want from the character; we want him to prove to us that through ingenuity and good faith, we can eliminate the foe that frightens the world most. Right now, in America at least, that's probably terrorism. Most places, it's probably still thermonuclear warfare, and he's fought that enough times over the years now. Bond really can't fight terrorism for its own sake. He's fought profiteers, assassins, heist-masters, and extremely powerful lunatics before, but there's a reason we don't often send him to the jungle, urban or organic. His skills, outside of the older trapmaster Bonds, don't help him there. Especially with Daniel Craig, the strengths of Bond lie in fighting guards, doing research and espionage, and tracking people. If he doesn't know who he's looking for, and the people he's looking for are as alert and stealthy as he is, he's not really the right man for the job. The man to fight guerilla warfare singlehanded is more of a Master Chief type, as we've seen in levels like Sierra 117 or Outskirts. They need to be so tough that it doesn't matter who's got the drop on who; he's tougher, so he wins in a one-on-one.   What's there to be done with him? Well, they could go the route of Uncharted and send him after people with interest in the occult. He could still be stealthy and dry as he assaults their information, though there's less room for Bond's sexuality in these ventures. Alternatively, send him after Kim Jong Il types. Otherwise...well, I said it already. I don't think the world needs Bond anymore. "

Yawn another Bond game let me guess it will be a decent 3rd person cover based shooter with possible mediocre to terrible driving segments.   I hope Raven Software just goes crazy with the license and we end up with another Wolverine Origins.  

Terrible writing.

What are you doing Raven? We need Jedi Knight 4!!!