ProbablyMonsters has had a long and eventful life for a company that has yet to ship a game.
First established by former Bungie CEO Harold Ryan in 2016 and announced to the world in 2019, the AAA game development outfit has launched three studios (Cauldron, Firewalk, and Battle Barge), sold one (Firewalk, to publishing partner Sony), canceled the debut project of another (Cauldron), and today announced another studio that is now hiring: Hidden Grove.
Given the widespread contractions the industry has seen in the past year and ProbablyMonsters’ own willingness to part ways with Firewalk, it’s interesting to see the company seemingly return to growing its development footprint, but Ryan tells GamesIndustry.biz it’s far from unexpected.
