Square Enix has picked up the rights to True Crime: Hong Kong, previously under development by United Front Games until its cancellation by Activision earlier this year.

As reported by Gamasutra, the title is still under development at Vancouver-based United Front, and will be managed by Square Enix London Studios.

"When we first saw and got our hands on the game we fell in love with it," Square Enix London Studios general manager Lee Singleton stated.

 

Humility is a rare trait among game developers. More and more, studio heads and industry figures are playing a game of one-upmanship in the “outrageous sound bytes” stakes in order to develop cults of personality; in order to be heard over the “140 characters or less” din that increasingly composes the daily flow of gaming news.

David Jaffe is “so fucking sick” of “artsy fartsy” attitudes in this business. Gears of War design director Cliff Blezsinski assures a handful of Kiwi press that the Locust and humanity will never join forces to fight the Lambent because “that would be gay.” They’re all bankable quotes sure to get an inch or two of copy, and none of them really matter.

So when United Front Games invites Gameplanet to sit down and humbly proffers something akin to an apology for their individual mistakes in the past, pens cease their scribbling.