Epic with Ex-Big Huge Games to Open Baltimore Studio - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 June 2012 / 5,398 Views
Epic Games has announced they will be opening up a new studio based out of Baltimore. Ex-Big Head Games leadership, which was recently shut down when 38 Studios went under, will be taking the lead role in the new studio.
Epic Games CEO Mike Capps in a weblog explained what is happening. "On Wednesday, the ex-BHG leadership team contacted us. They wanted to start a new company and keep together some of the key talent displaced by the layoff, and hoped that they could use an Epic IP as a starting point for a new game. We loved that they all wanted to keep working together, but it was pretty clear they’d have trouble building a demo and securing funding before their personal savings ran out."
Capps continuned, "In one of life’s coincidences, Epic’s directors had spent the morning discussing how we’d love to build even more successful projects with our growing team, but that we’d need a dramatic infusion of top talent to do so. Which, we all knew, was impossible. So now we’re planning to start an impossible studio in Baltimore."
"There’s a million things to work out. How many of the team can we hire? What will it be called? What will they be working on? We don’t know all the answers yet. Please give us some time to figure it out; we hope to have more to share soon."
"The way we see it, there’s been a big storm in Baltimore, and we’re taking in a few of the refugees — as are the awesome folks at Zynga East, Zenimax Online, and other southeastern studios. Epic’s in a situation where we can do this, and it very clearly fits with our company values, so we’re going to give it a whirl."
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I live in baltimore applying now.
I live just outside of Baltimore;this is great for the city
Very cool by epic too help them out and keep some good people together, may i suggest a title? Big Epic Huge Fucking games.
Suggested studio names: Big Epic Games, Epic Huge Games, Big Huge Epic Games. If the studio isn't called this or some variation of them then it will be madness.
Does anyone else find the wording extremely confusing?
Big Head Games: typo or is someone implying something here?
