people can fly the studio behind everything from cult classic fps games like painkiller and bulletstorm to the modern live service shooter outriders has announced that its working on an undisclosed aaa game to be published by microsoftthe game codenamed project maverick has a budget of 3050 million usd and microsoft will foot the bill for its production in a message to investors via windows central people can fly says the project will xbox based on the intellectual property rights owned by microsoft though whether that means the game is based on an existing ip or is set to be a new franchise owned by microsoft isnt entirely clearpeople can fly already has experience working on xbox ip since it handled the pc port of the original gears of war back in the day and codeveloped gears of war judgment with epic games however the studios bestloved games are probably its original fps titles painkiller was a delightfully hyperviolent throwback even on its release in 2004 and bulletstorms creative approach to firstperson combat remains unmatched to this daymore recently people can fly worked on the square enixpublished outriders a liveservice loot shooter set in a grim future outriders reviews landed positively enough but it didnt really have what it took to stand up against established genre titans like destiny 2with the financial details of project maverick having only just been revealed to investors its likely the game is only just entering early development which means you shouldnt expect to learn much of what the games all about for quite some time to comewith the xbox games showcase behind us the lineup of upcoming xbox series x games is looking bright