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Perfect Dark returns after 15+ year absence at The Game Awards

After over a decade away, the Perfect Dark franchise is making its return with a new reveal at The Game Awards.

Ozzie Mejia

December 10, 2020 4:21 PM

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After several decades away, Joanna Dark has returned. During The Game Awards presentation on Thursday, developer The Initiative revealed their debut game and it's a big one. It's the next Perfect Dark, which brings the franchise out of dormancy after two console generations.

The trailer saw a flyover of the game's presumed world, taking a look at a massive city, followed by combat within one of its central buildings leading into its laboratories. Destruction rains down leading to the reveal of Joanna Dark.

"We have built the Perfect Dark team at The Initiative by bringing in some of the most talented game makers from around the industry who all share a passion for storytelling, world-building and creating memorable game experiences," The Initiative Studio Head Darrell Gallagher said on Xbox Wire. "With the full backing from Xbox Studios to re-imagine one of the best loved IPs from gaming history, we couldn’t be more excited to share some of our early ideas."

This is the first Perfect Dark game since Perfect Dark Zero, which released as an Xbox 360 launch title. There is no information regarding a release window or finalized title for Perfect Dark, but Gallagher notes that The Initiative will have more to say about the game in the future.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?