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Robert Bowling Opens Game Studio

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:33:12 +0000

After abruptly leaving developer Infinity Ward in late March, former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling is opening a game development studio called Robotoki.

Speaking to Game Informer through e-mail today, Bowling said the decision to form his own company began immediately after resigning from his long-time position with Activision.

“Robotoki is focused on being a developer development studio that just happens to make games,” he said. “We are focused on our team first and everything else second, because I believe as an industry; we have a lot to learn on how to treat talent. While we continue to out stride film and music entertainment in other areas, we are falling severely behind in how to properly inspire and support our creative talent.

Bowling said Robotoki is completely self-funded and will only partner with those who support that model. “I wanted to create an environment where the creative vision holders held complete control over their work and could guide and maintain it from concept to execution. This is why I chose to completely self-fund Robotoki and have chosen to only work with partners who were supportive of that model.”

Robotoki’s first project, which will be revealed later this year, is slated for release on next-gen consoles, PC, and mobile devices (iOS, Tablet, Android). “As a developer, our focus is on creating a universe first, experiences second, and game mechanics last, “ Bowling said. “With focus being on universe, we aim to create experiences that transcend platforms and genres and allow our players to connect to our world, their characters, and gameplay via any medium (console, PC, or mobile).

“However, how they experience the world is unique to their device. The mobile / tablet experience should not mimic the console or PC experience, it should be additive to it, not supplemental. Allowing them to support their console and PC experience, continue their progression, but by experiencing the world in a meaningful and unique way.”

Bowling added, “Our focus is creating an experience that is no longer strictly single player, strictly co-op, or strictly multiplayer, but adapting the strengths of each of these into a unique experience that is fueled by the actions and contributions in each.”

Robotoki’s website just opened and is already hiring for the upcoming project.

Source: GameInformer

Robert Bowling, Call of Duty Creative Strategist, Leaves Activision

Robert Bowling, Call of Duty Creative Strategist, Leaves Activision

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:44:14 +0000

Robert Bowling, creative strategist for the Call of Duty franchise and the face of Infinity Ward, announced today that he will be departing from Infinity Ward and Activision.

“Today, I resign from my position as Creative Strategist of Call of Duty, as a lead of Infinity Ward, and as an employee of Activision,” Bowling wrote in a tweet earlier today.

Since Call of Duty 4, Bowling has more or less been the face of Infinity Ward’s titles, especially after the departure of founders Jason West and Vince Zampella, so his sudden departure comes as a bit of a surprise. Bowling did not offer a reason for his departure, either, so all we can do is guess at why he is moving on.

Shortly after Bowling made the announcement, Activision sent out an official statement on the departure to press outlets, but the statement does not shed on any light as to why Bowling is leaving.

Here is what Activision had to say: “We sincerely thank Robert for his many years of service. He’s been a trusted and valued member of the Infinity Ward team. We wish him all the best on his decision to pursue future opportunities.”

We here at team bRos think that there are a numerous amount of reasons why he would have left, especially because he tweeted the following in reply to someone:

“@deantak It’s the year of change Dean. Big budgets are no longer necessary for amazing gameplay experiences. Time to reconnect to our roots.”

This makes us think that he could have left for any of the following reasons:

What the Call of Duty franchise has become, and not so much what it use to be. Especially when it comes to creating the “same” game every year (2 different developers) and milking money from all the paying customers when it comes to map packs and much more.
Creative differences.
The numerous issues with the game; bugs, glitches, weapon issues, network code and much more. though I doubt he cared much about these.
The numerous issues with the Elite service and more especially the website and features such as clan operations taking months (too long) to launch.

Whatever the reasons may be, we at least thank him for his hard work at the times which he did so while at Infinity Ward and for the Call of Duty franchise fans. We wish him the best for his future.

Modern Warfare 2 Double XP Weekend Coming!

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0000

Mark your calendars now! April 2nd through April 5th is the first Double XP weekend that is coming to Modern Warfare 2! Also according to Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling’s tweet, this looks to be exclusive to Xbox 360 users too, so PlayStation 3 and PC users are out of luck.

But I am more than sure that you players on those platforms get your own Double XP weekend a month after when the maps are not exclusive to 360 anymore.

Source: Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling’s Tweet

Mark the calendars now! April 2nd – 5th marks the first Double XP weekend on #MW2 for #xboxlive worldwide. New Maps + Double XP = No sleep.

MW2′s Model 1887′s downgrade in the works

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:13:21 +0000

KnownAsMclovin tweeted this on Twitter today:

@fourzerotwo Still loving the game! I mean, its amazing right now, but fix the 1887′s and private match glitches and it’ll be Perfect!

and Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling replied with the following:

@KnownAsMclovin Thanks man. Expect to have both of those resolved as fast as we can.

This is good news! Now I already know the 1887′s have good range in real life, but in the game, in many people’s opinions the range is just too much. Those that you hear different from, most likely are the kids using this weapon and will soon not be able to get those easy kills, easily.

Infinity Ward working on Private Match “Hack”

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:40:35 +0000

Just 5 minutes ago Robert Bowling “fourzerotwo” tweeted this:

Working with the @infinityward team for a solution to the Public “Private Match” hack going on in #MW2 at the moment. I’ll keep you posted.

Glad to see them actually working on something, especially this. Since lately it seems to be every few matches you will get put into these, it was very common last night.

Now if only they could work on matchmaking better. I don’t know how many times that it picks a host that should not be host, when I or others should be host, see below:

Inside Xbox – Modern Warfare 2 Preview by OXM

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:46:23 +0000

Giant Bomb’s Interview with Robert Bowling on MW2

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:26:28 +0000

G4TV E3 Live Modern Warfare 2 Hands On

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:00:16 +0000

Infinity Ward drops some new “Modern Warfare 2″ chatter

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:29:23 +0000

Robert “Fourzerotwo” Bowling, director of communications and community manager at Infinity Ward, has updated his Twitter feed with word that he’s been reviewing voice-over from Modern Warfare 2. As in the sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that Activision still hasn’t properly announced.

Bowling’s tweet reads, “Reviewing some radio-chatter VO we just finished recording for Modern Warfare 2 today. ‘Cujo Two-One this is Vulture, solid copy on all.’” As you may remember, Heroes actor Ken Lally got into hot water for talking about VO he was doing for the game late last month.

And so the saga of one of gaming’s most recent Worst Kept Secrets continues. Oh, and Activision, it goes like this: official announcement in the spring, magazine cover and first look event shortly thereafter, full reveal at E3. That one’s on the house.

Source: Robert Bowling’s Twitter Feed | JoyStiq

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