Developer David Wu, who co-founded Toronto sport developer Pseudo Interactive, handed away earlier within the month. The information of his passing was confirmed by Compulsion Games head Guillaume Provost, who mentioned that Wu died shortly earlier than his forty eighth birthday. 

“Feeling grateful for the time I used to be capable of share with David Wu, my good friend, former boss and the one individual for whom arithmetic had been actually malleable,” wrote Provost. “He instilled cultural values – the significance of belonging, collaboration and well-being – that stay on with the numerous groups we subsequently migrated to, the studios we began, and the video games we printed.”

In 1995, Wu co-founded Pseudo with Rich Hilmer and Daniel Posner. The studio, which developed 2006’s Cel Damage and Sega’s Full Auto franchise, shut down in 2008. Later that 12 months, Wu joined 343 Industries as a expertise director on Halo 4. 

Pseudo was revived in 2021, with Wu returning to the studio as a lead developer. On the web site for Pseudo’s sport Conquest and Virtue, the studio wrote a memorial to honor him on its entrance web page. 

“David was arduous at work on the sport earlier than his premature loss of life and we’ll miss him terribly,” mentioned Pseudo. “To these of us at Pseudo Interactive, he was not merely a gifted lead developer and collaborator, but additionally a mentor and a pricey good friend. There are usually not phrases to explain the lack of this sensible man – we’ll miss him terribly.”

Tributes to Wu may be written and delivered to his family members right here.