Former MachineGames employees Michael Paixao (Mihcael Paixao) and Joel Jonsson (Joel Jonsson) announced the creation of the studio Bad Yolk Games in Sweden.
Bad Yolk Games is made up of 10 AAA game developers with a total of 14 released titles, including Chronicles of Riddick, EVE Online, Gears of War, and The Darkness. The studio intends to attract the best talent and strike a balance between work and life, and thus make the biggest, most creative and technically advanced games possible.
The team is already developing its first game on the new intellectual property. βAfter years of working with some extremely talented people on some really great projects, we felt it was time to create a new kind of studio on our own,β said Paixao. βObviously, high-quality games need to be fun, but we also believe that they need to be fun to make, and that creativity thrives best in a healthy and balanced work environment, which is the central pillar of our corporate message and structure.β
Michael Paixao has been working in the gaming industry since 2007. He moved to Sweden in 2011 when he continued his career at Ubisoft Massive in MalmΓΆ, where he created Tom Clancy's The Division. Some time later, Paishao moved to MachineGames in Uppsala, where he worked on , , ΠΈ .
Joel Jonsson joined MachineGames as an intern in 2013 and landed a job as a technical artist soon after. He worked with Michael on Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and DOOM.
Source: 3dnews.ru