BulletFarm bounce back after being dropped by NetEase

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Former Call of Duty: Black Ops designer David Vondehaar is making some kind of shooter for GreaterThan Group - the holding company recently founded by a former NetEase executive, who are also funding development of Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. What manner of shootybooty might this be? Well, Vondehaar is making allusions to the work of David Lynch - the beautiful crackpot behind such films and shows as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks and Lost Highway, whose impact on videogames extends from Silent Hill to Kentucky Route Zero , but who never, I think, developed a game himself.

Vondehaar left Call of Duty studio Treyarch in 2023, co-founding BulletFarm in 2024 with money from NetEase, but NetEase later pulled support in the course of wider corporate book-slashing .…