Summary
- The Revenge of the Savage Planet billboard at GDC mocks former Stadia boss Phil Harrison with a satirical ad.
- The former Typhoon Studios team formed Raccoon Logic to work on the sequel after Stadia Games and Entertainment’s closure.
- Revenge of the Savage Planet, set for May 8, 2025, is anticipated among other big releases like Elden Ring Nightreign and GTA 6.
The team behind the action-adventure sci-fi Revenge of the Savage Planet has erected a billboard at the 2025 Game Developers Conference event advertising the fun sequel, but the ad also mocks the former Stadia boss. The controversy surrounds the closure of Typhoon Studios, the developer behind Journey to the Savage Planet, back in 2021, which led the Typhoon team to form Raccoon Logic, the studio helming Revenge of the Savage Planet, in the same year and retain the rights to the IP.
Journey to the Savage Planet, released in 2020, follows players around the colorful ARY-26 planet in first person while they catalog the various flora and fauna. The game received a Stadia port, but due to Google’s unforeseen closure of Stadia Games and Entertainment (a service integrated with Typhoon), the port was abandoned with unresolved bugs. After the Typhoon team set up Raccoon, work on the game’s successor, Revenge of the Savage Planet, continued. The sequel will garner the attention of Xbox users this spring when Revenge of the Savage Planet arrives on Game Pass. It will join its predecessor, which already resides in the Microsoft catalog.
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Spotted by VGC, the Revenge of the Savage Planet billboard was seen on display in San Francisco’s Union Square for GDC, showing a character named “Gunther Harrison, CEO of Alta Interglobal” with an enlarged cranium. The ad read, “Has a Harrison fired you lately? You might be eligible for emotional support,” clearly taunting the former Stadia vice president Phil Harrison. The Journey to the Savage Planet devs always wanted to make a sequel, but development was stalled when Stadia closed all its internal development teams, including Typhoon.
Revenge of the Savage Planet GDC Billboard Mocks Former Stadia Boss
Harrison’s response to the sudden closure, also on the heels of Journey to the Savage Planet’s disastrous Stadia launch, wasn’t welcomed, saying the decision was “the best path to building Stadia into a long-term, sustainable business that helps grow the industry.” The Raccoon Logic devs recently discussed Revenge of the Savage Planet’s gameplay improvements, which sounds like the sequel will surely deliver more feel-good action, but the team’s trying times under Stadia’s umbrella is clearly still fresh.
Revenge of the Savage Planet enters the impressive most anticipated games of 2025 list, joining the likes of visually similar titles The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed (which recently released to mostly positive reviews), and heavyweights like Ghost of Yotei, Elden Ring Nightreign, and Grand Theft Auto 6. Revenge of the Savage Planet is slated for a May 8, 2025 release, which will cook up some competition with Doom: The Dark Ages and Lost Soul Aside.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is an upbeat, satirical action adventure Sci-Fi. Jump, shoot and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds, uncovering new gear and upgrades, while discovering various hidden secrets.
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