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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| BioWare and Pandemic join to form "Super Studio" |
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GameSpot has the huge <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/6137143.html" target="_blank">news</a> that <a href="http://www.bioware.com/" target="_blank">BioWare</a> and <a href="http://www.pandemicstudios.com/" target="_blank">Pandemic Studios</a> (Full Spectrum Warrior, Destroy all Humans, Star Wars Battlefront II) will form a new holding company called BioWare/Pandemic Studios, together with additional stakeholder and VC financier Elevation, who recently attempted an unsuccessful buyout of Eidos.
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<br>The article describes the result as a $300 Million "super developer", with BioWare's two co-founders, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, and Pandemic's two co-founders, Andrew Goldman and Josh Resnick, will becoming shareholders and senior executives, while Elevation's Riccitiello (ex-EA) will become the CEO:<blockquote><em>Carefully referred to as a "creative and management partnership," the new operation will be a holding company called BioWare/Pandemic Studios. BioWare's two co-founders, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, and Pandemic's two co-founders, Andrew Goldman and Josh Resnick, will become shareholders and senior executives. As one might expect, Riccitiello becomes the company's CEO. The 400 employees of both studios will also receive stakes in BioWare/Pandemic, and its studios in Los Angeles, Edmonton, Canada and Brisbane, Australia will continue to operate largely as before.
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<br>According to Elevation, the BioWare/Pandemic deal is even bigger than the Eidos acquisition, being a "combined investment" of over $300 million, including future funding. It also could have major repercussions within the game industry. Its express design is to sidestep the traditional publisher-developer relationship, where the latter is dependent on the former for funding, via the injection of outside capital.</em></blockquote> |
Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:29 pm |
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slak
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 122
Location: Sweden |
I doubt Bioware would do this unless they still retained much of their creative freedom we have seen in their games, so i think this could be a very good move. |
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Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:31 pm |
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FrancoTAU
Village Dweller
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Posts: 5
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I doubt this will alter Bioware's philosophy much as they have a winning track record. They'll just keep on the track to becoming the US answer to SquareEnix. |
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Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:25 pm |
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... or this slowly morphs into the next EA over time ...
Hopefully the former, but the latter is a distinct possibility. |
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Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:49 pm |
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. - A Nietzsche quote from Baldur's Gate. |
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Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:24 pm |
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bjon045
Fearless Paladin
Joined: 02 Jun 2003
Posts: 234
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A very Apt quote Mr Guest. |
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:06 am |
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Korplem
Swashbuckler
Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
Why do I feel sad about this? 
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
-The Prince of Nothing |
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