Slant Six Interview

At its Gamer's Day earlier this week in San Diego, Sony announced the latest two titles in its SOCOM franchise, Tactical Strike for the PSP and Confrontation for the PlayStation 3. Fans of the series quickly noted that it was not Zipper Interactive handling the reigns of both games but rather relative newcomer Slant Six. To find out more about the group that's taken over the tactical series, we fired off a few questions to the team. Dan McBride, director of development, and Brian Thalken, managing director at Slant Six, filled us in on the team's history, its work on the latest SOCOM titles and more.

IGN: Firstly, can you give our readers a quick overview of the team's history?

Brian Thalken: Slant Six Games started out with 5 of us and in 2 years we've grown to a company of over 80 people. Our staff is comprised mainly of experienced developers that have been in the industry for awhile. The original core of the company came from people that Dan and I used to work with at Barking Dog Studios and Rockstar Vancouver, and also from a group of friends of ours from Electronic Arts. Dan and I have been working together for over 12 years.

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