{"id":83778,"date":"2019-02-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/julian_eggebrecht_ex-head_of_factor_5_joined_epic_games_last_month"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:00:00","slug":"julian-eggebrecht-ex-head-of-factor-5-joined-epic-games-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/julian-eggebrecht-ex-head-of-factor-5-joined-epic-games-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Eggebrecht, Ex-Head Of Factor 5, Joined Epic Games Last Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc9e1ebeea8f8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc9e1ebeea8f8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Thanos\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc9e1ebeea8f8\/thanos.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc9e1ebeea8f8\/thanos.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Thanos\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Warning: the following news may have you pining for &#8216;the good old days&#8217; and thinking back wistfully to when EA wasn&#8217;t fouling up good <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> games with lootbox nonsense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erstwhile Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson has noted on Twitter a recent movement of a prominent industry figure under the considerable umbrella of Epic Games:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join Epic &gt; use their bottomless pit of cash to buy Star Wars Rogue Leaders Wii &gt; release it for all to enjoy<\/span>\u2014 Liam Robertson (@Doctor_Cupcakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Doctor_Cupcakes\/status\/1098163820336476161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"picture embed right img-\">\n<p>The man himself &#8211; Most Misspelt Surname Award just out of shot<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>For readers too young to remember, Julian Eggebrecht used to head up Factor 5, the sadly now-defunct studio that worked technological wonders with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/star_wars_rogue_squadron\">Star Wars: Rogue Squadron<\/a><\/strong> series on N64 and GameCube. Before that the company had a history with the Turrican series, notably producing classic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_turrican\">Super Turrican<\/a><\/strong> games on SNES, which recently reappeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/hardware_review_the_analogue_super_nt_is_the_ultimate_way_to_play_snes_games_in_2018\">beautiful Analogue Super Nt console<\/a> with material that had to be cut from the original game due to memory restrictions. Nintendo also consulted Factor 5 as the GameCube was being developed; Eggebrecht&#8217;s company developed middleware tools for the console.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d been trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s-X8C_8nJQ4\">revive the Rogue Squadron series on Wii<\/a> with a compilation game, but the project got canned and Factor 5 shut down in 2009 leaving only prototype videos and whispers on the internet. His return to a frontrunning company in the gaming space is cause for excitement for anyone who looks back on Factor 5&#8217;s output with fondness.<\/p>\n<p>Now before you jump to the wrong conclusion, we&#8217;re not suggesting that any kind of revival is on the cards. Thanos&#8217; appearance in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> is hardly enough of a Disney link to pin our fanboy hopes of a Rogue Squadron revival on (or a &#8216;Poe-gue Squadron&#8217;, if you will). Anybody who&#8217;s fired up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_ii_rogue_leader\">Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader<\/a><\/strong> on GameCube recently can tell you just how well it <em>still<\/em> holds up, though &#8211; even on modern TVs through sub-optimal connections and cables.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s <em>extremely<\/em> unlikely that this signals anything at all beyond Eggebrecht lending his considerable expertise and technical know-how to Epic Games, it&#8217;s sure got us dreaming.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"RS\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/165d84486a089\/rs.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/165d84486a089\/rs.900x.jpg\" alt=\"RS\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/05\/feature_the_making_of_star_wars_rogue_squadron_ii_rogue_leader\">this feature<\/a> on the making of Rogue Leader to find out why this news has got us all teary-eyed and nostalgic.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;But you didn&#8217;t mention Lair!&#8217; we hear you cry. Nope, you&#8217;re right. Didn&#8217;t mention Rebel Strike either &#8211; let us dream! Share your ponderances below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: the following news may have you pining for &#8216;the good old days&#8217; and thinking back wistfully to when EA wasn&#8217;t fouling up good Star Wars games with lootbox nonsense. Erstwhile Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson has noted on Twitter a recent movement of a prominent industry figure under the considerable umbrella of Epic Games: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}