Disney Puts Bungie Co-Founder In Charge of Their Game Development Arm

DoctorFinger · 09-08-2009, 10:15 AM

A few years back a picture of a Borg cube with the EA logo on it was all the rage amongst gaming websites. And why not? EA at the time was snatching up independent developers like they were party favors. Fast forward to 2009 and I think we need a 'Shop of Mickey Mouse as a Borg drone. The House of Mouse is expanding their gaming arm once again.

This time Disney has acquired Wideload Games, best known for developing Stubbs The Zombie & Hail to the Chimp. Disney has also made Wideload's chief Alex Seropian - a co-founder of Bungie who worked on the original Halo as well as Myth and Marathon - head of the entertainment giant's game development arm.

Wideload Games themselves approached development fairly uniquely. They'd develop the core concepts of a game - art design, genre, story, etc - and farm out the actual grunt work on the game to an outside studio. Seropian will oversee all of Disney's in-house development studios, which includes Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios, Propaganda Games and Black Rock Studios.

Source - Games Industry.

ElektroDragon · 09-08-2009, 10:43 AM

I'm supposed to be impressed that they put a guy in charge who made Hail to the Chimp?!? Does.. not.. compute.

Philonious · 09-08-2009, 11:43 AM

Good for him, milking his (distant) past successes!

09-08-2009, 10:15 AM	#1
DoctorFinger Senior News Editor Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: New York City Posts: 5,569 Blog Entries: 10	Disney Puts Bungie Co-Founder In Charge of Their Game Development Arm A few years back a picture of a Borg cube with the EA logo on it was all the rage amongst gaming websites. And why not? EA at the time was snatching up independent developers like they were party favors. Fast forward to 2009 and I think we need a 'Shop of Mickey Mouse as a Borg drone. The House of Mouse is expanding their gaming arm once again. This time Disney has acquired Wideload Games, best known for developing Stubbs The Zombie & Hail to the Chimp. Disney has also made Wideload's chief Alex Seropian - a co-founder of Bungie who worked on the original Halo as well as Myth and Marathon - head of the entertainment giant's game development arm. Wideload Games themselves approached development fairly uniquely. They'd develop the core concepts of a game - art design, genre, story, etc - and farm out the actual grunt work on the game to an outside studio. Seropian will oversee all of Disney's in-house development studios, which includes Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios, Propaganda Games and Black Rock Studios. Source - Games Industry.

09-08-2009, 10:43 AM	#2
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09-08-2009, 11:43 AM	#3
Philonious Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sherbrooke, QC Posts: 813	Good for him, milking his (distant) past successes!