{"id":16872,"date":"2023-02-17T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/firaxis-jake-solomon-announces-departure-from-studio\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T21:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T21:20:35","slug":"firaxis-jake-solomon-announces-departure-from-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/firaxis-jake-solomon-announces-departure-from-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Firaxis\u2019 Jake Solomon Declares Departure From Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.gameinformer.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/body_default\/public\/2023\/02\/17\/3b0000ff\/jake_solomon_mms_rapid_fire_screen.jpg?resize=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Jake Solomon Firaxis\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<pre><code>  Jake Solomon, the director of Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns and the fashionable XCOM video games, has introduced his departure from Firaxis.\u00a0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Solomon has labored at Firaxis for 23 years and is finest generally known as the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the director of XCOM 2, together with its Conflict of the Chosen enlargement. He most just lately directed Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a press release posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolomonJake\/status\/1626582096440598533?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, Solomon doesn\u2019t state a selected purpose for his resignation however does tease his subsequent venture by stating, \u201cMy mind is on hearth with a brand new dream. Time to go chase it.\u201d Whether or not or not this dream retains him within the sport trade is a thriller for now. You may learn his full assertion under.<\/p>\n<pre><code>        &lt;img src=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/websites\/default\/recordsdata\/kinds\/body_default\/public\/2023\/02\/17\/83428a77\/jake_solomon_departure_firaxis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>After 23 great years, I\u2019m transferring on from Firaxis<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a giant dreamer, and I fulfilled two lifelong goals in making XCOM (and XCOM 2, and Conflict of the Chosen) and Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns. I\u2019m the luckiest child who ever lived.<\/p>\n<p>X-COM was my favourite sport rising up; it\u2019s why I\u2019m a sport developer. Marvel comics made me a dreamer, and people characters really feel like my prolonged household.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m grateful to my Firaxis teammates, previous and current, for making goals into actuality. Real love and gratitude. We did some actual great things collectively.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m grateful to 2K for all the time believing within the goals, and all the time supporting us with the time and sources wanted to convey them to life.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m so grateful to everybody who loved XCOM and Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns. I\u2019ve by no means taken this job with no consideration. Thanks for letting me do that job.<\/p>\n<p>I liked designing tactical turn-based video games, but it surely\u2019s time for different, smarter folks to push that house ahead.<\/p>\n<p>My mind is on hearth with a brand new dream. Time to go chase it.<\/p>\n<p>Jake<\/p>\n<p>A few of our favourite recollections of Jake\u2019s time at Firaxis embrace this humorous video of him visiting a sport retailer to persuade buyers to purchase XCOM 1. He was additionally an excellent sport on our Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns Speedy-Fireplace interview. You may learn our evaluation of his remaining venture at Firaxis, Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns, right here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Supply: Recreation Informer<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-label\">Put up Views: <\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-count\">13<\/span>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thisislevelup.net\/firaxis-jake-solomon-announces-departure-from-studio\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=firaxis-jake-solomon-announces-departure-from-studio\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Jake Solomon, the director of Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns and the fashionable XCOM video games, has introduced his departure from Firaxis.\u00a0 Solomon has labored at Firaxis for 23 years and is finest generally known as the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the director of XCOM 2, together with its Conflict of the Chosen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[85,5598,7867,7868,7869,1258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16873,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions\/16873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}