The launch of the New Tales gaming studio was announced today by a group of senior game industry members. A team that has worked at Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, Vivendi, LucasArts, and other companies runs the hybrid developer and publisher. New Tales, situated in Paris, intends to create games with its own studios as well as publish games created by others. According to the company’s website, it promises to provide “state-of-the-art publishing services with a fresh twist & worldwide scale.” Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard, New Tales, New Tales Gaming studio, Kim Gresko, Ray Gresko, New Gaming Studio
They’re backed up by three game development senior advisers: Kim Gresko, a former LucasArts composite artist and cofounder of Blue Silver Studios; Ray Gresko, a former Blizzard global chief development officer and cofounder of Blue Silver Studios; and Julia Humphreys, a former Blizzard Overwatch production director and senior producer at Seven Studios.
New Tales stated it would generate original IPs through its own internal studios and provide publishing services to other game developers through “fair collaborations” in a statement released on Monday.
“We’ve put together a team of dedicated gamers with unrivalled experience, having created some of the most well-known IPs and player communities,” CEO Cédric Maréchal said.
“Gaming has never had such an exciting period, with so much innovation and originality.” The number of new releases, on the other hand, is continually increasing, reinforcing the demand for excellent worldwide publishing. New Tales is a one-stop-shop publishing solution in which we’ll collaborate with developers as a single team to achieve maximum success.
It’s definitely too early to say what kinds of games the studio will make, but with the expertise on offer, there should be plenty of variety. World of Warcraft, Sonic The Hedgehog, EverQuest, Half-Life, and Hearthstone are just a few of the properties with which its personnel has worked. Given that Activision will eventually become part of Microsoft, a new independent studio made up of former Activision employees entering the market is incredible timing. It’s unclear whether this means they were aware of the transaction before it happened and planned their withdrawal appropriately, but if not, it’s a bizarre coincidence.
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