carbine-studios posts

There are PC games on the immediate horizon that are close to being released. Then there are games that have been officially announced but will take years to find their way to our hard drive (BioShock Infinite is due out in 2012, for example) And then there are the games that are completely under the radar. These are titles that developers are working on very hard but haven't been officially announced or in some cases even admitted as being in production.

Big Download has covered these games over the years. In the past we have called them "Black Ops" games but since Call of Duty Black Ops has become so well known we didn't want to confuse you when we decided to do our yearly look at these games. So from now on we are calling these super-secret titles "Code Black" games.

The last time we did an article like this we mentioned several games that have since been fully revealed such as BioShock Infinite, FireFall, Bulletstorm and others. But there are still tons of games that we know are currently being made that haven't seen the light of the public eye yet? Which titles are we talking about? Check out the first part of our current list of Code Black games for yourself.

NCsoft may be restructuring its Western operations but the company still has a number of US based dev studios working on various projects. Today the publisher announced that Tim Cain, best known as one of the creators of the original Interplay Fallout games, has been given a promotion at their Carbine Studios operations.

Cain, who joined Carbine in 2005 as their programming director, now has been named as the design director of the studio. Carbine is currently working on a so far unnamed MMO project. Cain was one of the designers of Fallout and Fallout 2 and later helped to form Trokia Games which released a number of RPGs including the acclaimed Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.