The designer has huge experience with multiplayer games, having directed Ubisoft’s popular eSports shooter Rainbow Six: Siege, as well as online modes for Guardians of the Galaxy, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Killzone 2. In 2018 the PlayStation studio rehired game director Simon Larouche to work on an unannounced title, which is potentially related to this week’s job listings. If it’s the former, progress will likely carry over to the next Horizon game, we were told. Sources said that Sony had been keen to include co-op in the game’s sequel, Forbidden West, but Guerrilla decided to save the feature for a future project, which they believed would either be a standalone online spin-off, or Horizon 3. Zero Dawn concept art that leaked online in 2014 – verified by VGC – even shows initial plans to have multiple players battle the game’s huge mechanical beasts, in a scenario similar to Capcom‘s Monster Hunter games. Sources had previously told VGC that co-op was initially planned for the first Horizon game but was ultimately scrapped so the development team could focus on other areas of the title. While it’s not clear if the listing are related to Guerrilla’s flagship Horizon series, VGC understands that the studio has long planned to expand Horizon into multiplayer, although officially it’s said that upcoming sequel Forbidden West will not contain such a feature. Another job position for a senior game writer – which may or may not be related to the same project – is seeking an individual with “extensive knowledge of stories and narrative design in open-world RPG games, online games, and MMORPGs” to create “mission, quest writing and narrative design”.