Known most recently as the American publisher of Deadly Premonition and Blacklight: Tango Down, Ignition Entertainment will be closing their London office by October 31st. Whatever remaining development time needed on its in-production titles (Wardevil, Project Kane) to partner studios elsewhere. A publishing front will remain in the Ealing/London area after production ceases, but an […]
Famed RPG publisher/developer Level 5 (Dark Cloud, White Knight Chronicles) has announced that it will open a new studio in Santa Monica come this September. Known as Level 5 International America Inc., but the company has yet to clarify if the studio will either be development or administrative-based. A new European studio is also planned […]
The most famous motion-capture artist in the world, Andy Serkis (Gollum in the Lord of the Rings series), has opened up his own studio-academy in the art of mo-cap photography for films and video games. Dubbed the Imaginarium, the UK-based studio was conceived during Serkis’ work on some video game projects abroad, and he hopes […]
Developer Rare announced plans to open a second, complementary studio at Fazeley Studios in Digbeth, Birmingham. Functioning as a “production, test, and usability site” with hopes to turn into “a world class usability lab.”