History
Hangar 13 was formed around September 2013, when 2K Games announced that Rod Fergusson would be running a new San Francisco studio. [1] However, Fergusson left the position by January 2014, which he claimed was due to "creative differences" with management. [2]
On December 4, 2014, 2K announced that it had set up a new game studio, Hangar 13, led by Haden Blackman, formerly creative director for LucasArts. [3] Blackman told GamesBeat that the studio would work on a game for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. [4] Mafia III , the studio's debut title, was announced in August 2015. [5] 2K Czech, the developer of previous entries in the Mafia series, had a supporting role in the game's development. [6] Mafia III was released on October 7, 2016, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. [7] In 2017, 2K Czech was merged into Hangar 13. [8]
In February 2018, 2K announced that Hangar 13 had been hit with sizable layoffs, without disclosing exact numbers. [9] At the time, Hangar 13 was brainstorming ideas for its next game—one idea included a "fight to music" system through which the player's movement would create songs, similar to Harmonix's cancelled game Chroma. [10] In May 2018, Hangar 13 opened an additional studio in Brighton, UK, headed by Nick Baynes. [11] [12] In July 2018, the studio announced that it was working on a new intellectual property. [13]
In March 2019, it was announced that the studio had collaborated with Gearbox Software to develop a free update for Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, which added 4K graphics to the remastered versions of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel . [14]
In May 2020, 2K and Hangar 13 announced the Mafia: Trilogy. This contained a remake of the first Mafia, a remaster of Mafia II (developed by d3t) and a platinum version of Mafia III comprised with its additional story packs. These editions were available as a bundle or individually. Both the original Mafia II and Mafia III owners on Steam and console had their editions upgraded at no cost. [15]
In November 2021, it was confirmed that Volt, an unannounced game by Hangar 13, was cancelled by Take-Two Interactive after running up a loss of $53 million in production costs. [16] [17] In May 2022, Blackman announced his impending departure from the company, succeeded by Hangar 13 Brighton studio head Nick Baynes. [18] [19] Later that month, after Baynes had taken over, Hangar 13 laid off people across its four studios, of which the Novato headquarters dismissed 50 of its 87 employees. [20] It was reported that Hangar 13 was in the early stages of development for a prequel to the Mafia: Trilogy as well as a new entry to the Top Spin series; Hangar 13 was also awaiting a greenlight from its parent company to begin development on a fifth entry to the Mafia series alongside its prequel, as Baynes describes, to keep its developers employed at the studio for a smooth transition from one game to another. [21] In August 2022, development on a new Mafia game was confirmed to have started. [22]
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