Former Blizzard dev starts Atomic Operations game studio
by Mike Schramm 
on Mar 26th 2010 8:00AM
Industry veteran Chris Millar has been around -- he's been with
Blizzard since the
WarCraft II days, and has worked on everything from
Black and White 2 to
Fat Princess – but now he's off to head up his own company
called Atomic Operations. In
this quick Q&A with Gamasutra, he says that the company will be a grab-bag of methods and products, all using "an evolved production method similar to that of movies." They've already got a project out the door, too: Atomic is the company that's supporting
Fat Princess,
with the bugfixes released the other day and presumably more to come.
Millar and Atomic Operations join the multitude of other Blizzard veterans off working on their own companies. Let's see, there's Keith Lee and
his crew at Booyah, the ex-Blizzard folks
at Red 5 Studios, the unfortunate souls at
Castaway Entertainment and
Flagship Studios (now
Gravity Bear and
Gargantuan Studios), new
WoW TCG licensees
Cryptozoic, and a few
other little developers and divisions headed up by ex-Blizzard devs. Whew, that's a whole lot of babies -- Blizzard is like the Zeus of gaming studios lately. What are they serving in the cafeteria over there, startup cola?
