The developer is set to operate as an independent game
studio under a new name, Daybreak Game Company.
Business news: London designer Benjamin Hubert has relaunched
his studio under a new name as part of a shift towards more «human - focused» projects, and is using «crowdspeaking» to drum up interest (+ interview).
Not exact matches
There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the
studio name suggests, but it's
under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a
new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.
While the legal conflict between Activision and two former senior employees of Infinity Ward rages on, Jason West and Vince Zampella have found a
new studio under the
name of Respawn Entertainment.
The
new name puts EA's formal corporate weight behind this direction: the
studio sits within the EA Casual Entertainment paddock at the mega publisher, and
under the fresh face of Harvey Elliot, who was
named head of
studio in June last year.