Last month we told you about Phil Harrison leaving Xbox. Microsoft still wasn’t saying anything about it and there was a lot of speculation about where Xbox’s other Phil would end up. Well, he won’t be needing to update his LinkedIn profile to find a new job – he’s making his own company and using Microsoft to help.
According to an interview with Games Industry, Harrison has founded his own company, a deliberately meaninglessly titled Alloy Platform Industries. It’s going to be a tech company, and he does mention other companies like Gaikai and Supercell as inspirations, but he’s playing his cards very close to his chest:
We’re in stealth mode at the moment, we’ll stay in stealth mode for a while. It’s very exciting, and something I’ve been planning for a little over a year, in full consultation and collaboration with Microsoft, specifically with Phil Spencer. I’m taking a plunge into the start-up pool.
[…] I wouldn’t comment on that. Alloy has licensed some technology from Microsoft which will form the basis of our initial investigations and explorations. But I’m not going to say any more than that. It’s unannounced technology that nobody outside of Microsoft knows about.
Top secret technology and consultation/collaboration with Phil Spencer? So is it going to be the next big thing in gaming? Well, it might not even be fully gaming related.
We’re definitely in the same neighbourhood, probably on the same street, but probably not the next door house, if that makes any sense. But clearly related. You know, the things that interest me and stimulate me are how technology and entertainment and people intersect. Think of those as three circles with a Venn diagram with an intersection in the middle.
Ugh, Venn diagrams? Really? Why not just answer the question?
I’m glad that Harrison has founded a new venture and has left on such amicable terms from Microsoft. At least there shouldn’t be drama or mud slinging in the coming months. Here’s hoping his company does well and he uses that top secret technology to do something really cool.
Last Updated: April 21, 2015
Pariah
April 21, 2015 at 13:28
So, no deleting his name from everything he’s ever worked on?
Too soon?
Hammersteyn
April 21, 2015 at 13:34
Well he’ll need a new cheaper car. Phil Harrison driving a……..Ford?
Ranting Raptor
April 21, 2015 at 13:46
QUICK! Someone photoshop Phil Spencer’s face on to an Indiana Jones or Han Solo picture! STAT!!!! (Just not Zoe)
Hammersteyn
April 21, 2015 at 14:03
Hahahaha
Lord Chaos
April 21, 2015 at 13:32
O… O… O… The Kinect-Cloud
Admiral Chief asked for this
April 21, 2015 at 13:36
A lot of talking and not saying anything
HvR
April 21, 2015 at 15:20
You must read between the lines.
MS licensed tech.
People tech interaction.
Stimulate
XBOX TOO Controller!!!
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Ranting Raptor
April 21, 2015 at 13:37
So this:
HvR
April 21, 2015 at 15:22
Brilliant, cross section between Phill Spencer and Microsoft should “180”
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 21, 2015 at 13:58
Let me guess, some social media platform BS. Then MS doesn’t end up with egg on its face if it fails like Google+ has.
Kromas,powered by windows 10.
April 21, 2015 at 14:23
“unannounced technology that nobody outside of Microsoft knows about.” Read it as Kinnect 3. 😛
Jonah Cash
April 21, 2015 at 14:30
Maybe he can find the other 180p’s in the Xbone???
Francois Knoetze
April 21, 2015 at 15:59
I absolutely despise this guy. Everything he touches turns to crap and on top of that he is just a tool…