The Korea Times
NEOWIZ’s Round8 Studio is ramping up recruitment as it expands a multititle development pipeline, with the studio emphasizing a hiring philosophy centered not only on technical skills but on applicants’ identity as gamers. Fresh off the global success of Lies of P on PC and console, the studio is entering an aggressive expansion phase, currently developing six distinct projects under multiple creative leads. The lineup includes a new title from Lies of P director Choi Ji-won and his team, known as Team NOUGH, alongside Project Rubicon led by Jin Seung-ho, Project Windi directed by Lee Sang-gyun, and Project CF,e among others. Each project is being developed with a distinct identity and gameplay direction. Round8 says the strong global performance of Lies of P was not merely the result of production scale or technical execution, but of what it describes as “authentic genre understanding” among developers who are themselves players of action and soulslike games. Soulslike refers to games inspired by the Souls series, defined by common elements such as high mechanical difficulty an
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