Bethesda veteran Jeff Gardiner raises $13 million for Something Wicked Games to create an open-world RPG
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Jeff Gardiner and other veterans from Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment have started Something Wicked Games to create an open-world role-playing game.
The team has raised $13.2 million to create Wyrdsong, a "supernatural" open-world role-playing game with triple-A values, Gardiner said in an interview with GamesBeat.
Debuting at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Gardiner revealed the company during Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live event. Chinese game publisher NetEase provided the funding. Gardiner is based in Washington, D.C.
"It's been an amazing experience being at Bethesda on so many levels. Some of my lifelong best friends are here, including Todd Howard, and I've made the tough decision after a long, long, dark winter. from COVID," Gardiner said. "The timing was fortuitous because Microsoft had just bought us out. I took some time to kick some tires and got a ping from an old friend of mine."
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Jeff Gardiner is co-founder from Somethin g Wicked.The studio is scattered around the world, with creative and leadership talent from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, The Outer Worlds, and more Again. The first game, a supernatural open-world RPG, Wyrdsong, is currently in development.
Today's announcement comes with an animated trailer for the studio's debut game, Wyrdsong. Wyrdsong is an occult historical fantasy RPG set in a fictional Portugal during the Middle Ages. Players will have to question both their reality and the choices they make as Wyrdsong is poised to expand, challenge and redefine aspects of what constitutes today's RPG genre.
>Gardiner's gaming career boasts some of the best-known franchises in the RPG space. Gardiner served as lead producer and project manager for several of Bethesda's landmark titles in the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises. Before making the difficult choice to leave Bethesda Game Studios after a 15-year career, Gardiner's efforts on Fallout 76 saw his transformation into one of the most successful and robust examples of the game-as-a-service model. , said Gardiner.
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Jeff Gardiner and other veterans from Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment have started Something Wicked Games to create an open-world role-playing game.
The team has raised $13.2 million to create Wyrdsong, a "supernatural" open-world role-playing game with triple-A values, Gardiner said in an interview with GamesBeat.
Debuting at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Gardiner revealed the company during Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live event. Chinese game publisher NetEase provided the funding. Gardiner is based in Washington, D.C.
"It's been an amazing experience being at Bethesda on so many levels. Some of my lifelong best friends are here, including Todd Howard, and I've made the tough decision after a long, long, dark winter. from COVID," Gardiner said. "The timing was fortuitous because Microsoft had just bought us out. I took some time to kick some tires and got a ping from an old friend of mine."
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register hereJeff Gardiner is co-founder from Somethin g Wicked.The studio is scattered around the world, with creative and leadership talent from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, The Outer Worlds, and more Again. The first game, a supernatural open-world RPG, Wyrdsong, is currently in development.
Today's announcement comes with an animated trailer for the studio's debut game, Wyrdsong. Wyrdsong is an occult historical fantasy RPG set in a fictional Portugal during the Middle Ages. Players will have to question both their reality and the choices they make as Wyrdsong is poised to expand, challenge and redefine aspects of what constitutes today's RPG genre.
>Gardiner's gaming career boasts some of the best-known franchises in the RPG space. Gardiner served as lead producer and project manager for several of Bethesda's landmark titles in the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls franchises. Before making the difficult choice to leave Bethesda Game Studios after a 15-year career, Gardiner's efforts on Fallout 76 saw his transformation into one of the most successful and robust examples of the game-as-a-service model. , said Gardiner.
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