Fallout, Medal of Honor devs form new studio

20 Comments by Scott Jon Siegel Mar 5th 2008 2:40PM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

A new development studio has formed in Pasadena, CA, co-founded by former developers of titles like Fallout and Medal of Honor. The new studio, named WhiteMoon Dreams (huh), will focus on creating original IP for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii, but is also open to working with developers on titles in need of assistance.

Heading the studio are Jay Kootarappallil -- a former EA technical art director for titles like Ratchet & Clank and Medal of Honor -- and R. Scott Campbell -- lead concept and game designer on Fallout. At the moment the team is working with a "major Japanese publisher" on an unannounced title. The team hopes to focus on innovative gameplay, and "new directions in the visual medium." We wish the newly-formed studio the best of luck in its endeavors.

Tags: fallout, medal-of-honor, medalofhonor, moh, whitemoon-dreams

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Fernando Rocker: Mar 5th 2008; 2:45PM

Hopefully they will create actualy good games for the game...

I think that developers like Data Desing Interactives (Ninjabread and other shitty games with an average score of 1/10) and Bold Studio should be banned from the videogame industry.

xFenixKnightx: Mar 5th 2008; 2:48PM

"The new studio, named WhiteMoon Dreams (huh)"

lulz

Eric: Mar 5th 2008; 2:49PM

Maybe they are the ones doing Dead Rising 2?

Maverick Saturn: Mar 5th 2008; 3:43PM

More like dead rising, dead sees name, dead becomes dead again

Ronshatmycarl: Mar 5th 2008; 3:03PM

With EA gobbling up every developer in the whole universe it is good to see that there new ones still springing up. These guys' past work is a good promise for the future.

Pointz: Mar 5th 2008; 3:12PM

Unless EA buys them too.

skyrous: Mar 5th 2008; 3:15PM

Studio has hit game, EA buys studio proclaiming how well the companies will fit together, shortly thereafter the studio's talented people leave form new studio leaving an empty shell cashing in on ripoffs of old hit intellectual properties. new studio has hit game...

The cycle of EA suckiness has been unbroken for 20 years.

xFenixKnightx: Mar 5th 2008; 3:20PM

Uhh yeah, thats sounds about right. +1

Alex S.: Mar 5th 2008; 6:24PM

for another example of this, see Rare > Free Radical

Ronshatmycarl: Mar 5th 2008; 3:21PM

*bawl* please don't kill Bioware, take me, take me *bawl*

Maverick Saturn: Mar 5th 2008; 3:44PM

They'll mutate you into a biological creature :(

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force): Mar 5th 2008; 3:59PM

I wish them the best of luck! :D

Shagittarius: Mar 5th 2008; 4:13PM

Why do I picture some fat white guy named earl mooning me through that window as their logo.

Marty: Mar 5th 2008; 4:52PM

The logo ought to be a painted mural of a wolf howling at the moon... on the side of a van.

embassy: Mar 5th 2008; 7:22PM

my god, that company name and logo looks like its been ripped right out of 1995 PC gaming.

Tim Burns: Mar 5th 2008; 9:50PM

"R. Scott Campbell -- lead concept and game designer on Fallout."

Ha! Did you guys get that off of a press release? I think somebody is trying to pump himself up. He was one of a handful of game designers who worked on Fallout, and while I can't say for sure what each of their roles were some went off to form Troika and put out a very good Arcanum while Campbell went off to be lead designer and the force behind the absolute turd that was Defiance.

John Connor: Mar 6th 2008; 7:41AM

"The new studio, named WhiteMoon Dreams (huh)"

Dreamworks logo: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/f/f3/Dreamworks.jpg

matt: Mar 6th 2008; 10:59AM

"a former EA technical art director for titles like Ratchet & Clank and Medal of Honor"

Since when is Ratchet and Clank part of EA...

arooguy: Mar 6th 2008; 11:10AM

They're probably working with Capcom

hvnlysoldr: Mar 9th 2008; 10:38PM

So Fall Out of Honor?

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