Arkane Studios – Memories and Highlights

Concluding Arkane Studios’ 20th anniversary celebrations, Bethesda brings us one last batch of articles on their official website. To start things off, we have this article where Arkane’s developers talk about their favorite weapons and abilities. Then, you can go here to find some highlights from Arkane’s recent Reddit AMA. Over here, the studio’s developers reminisce about the past. And finally, we get this thank you message from the team.

Here’s the latter:

Thank you.

As the Arkane 20 celebrations come to a close, we wanted to leave the Arkane community with messages from some of the people in Austin and Lyon who work to create the games you love.

Harvey Smith, Studio/Creative Director | Arkane Austin

You have all given us so much energy over the years with the ways you’ve engaged with our games. Some of you have put hundreds or even thousands of hours into Prey or the Dishonored games. You’ve maintained wikis, written fanfiction, streamed speedruns, created art, designed and worn cosplay, and celebrated or argued about our game systems. How could we not love you? We plan to take you someplace very intriguing in the near future, and we hope you’ll join us.

Dinga Bakaba, Game Director | Arkane Lyon

I hope for even more interaction with all of you in the many years to come. Both the outpouring of love as well as the constructive criticism are what carry us through the great challenges and experimentation that are needed for us to continue to evolve and keep iterating on the types of games we love and Arkane’s signature take on them. We hope you will continue to support our games, and we promise to do everything in our power to keep pushing the boundaries and surprising you at every turn.

Ricardo Bare, Co-Creative Director | Arkane Austin

One of the most wonderful – and terrifying – things about making games is the part where we get to share the experience with the rest of the world. To everyone who has played our games, thank you. It really does mean the world to us to hear about your discoveries, your accomplishments, what you love and what you hate. We can hardly wait to share the next adventure with you.

Sébastien Mitton, Art Director | Arkane Lyon

Merci! It is because of you that we can pursue our experimentations and our dreams. There is so much to come. Great stories to tell, fun to be had, and of course, stylish art and the shared pleasure of deep and compelling experiences. Again, merci!

Susan Kath, Business Director | Arkane Austin

Thank you to all the Arkane fans out there, new and old, for all the love you’ve shown us over the years. We never tire of watching you enjoy our games – from streams to videos to artwork and more. We share all of your creations with the whole team and they in turn inspire us in new ways as we explore new game ideas. You make making games FUN and we look forward to sharing with you for years to come.