The New Sweden-based studio, Blue Scarab Entertainment, will comprise industry veterans who have worked on well-known games likeHelldiversandBattlefield. The team plans to work on an original IP that features an interesting story-driven true crime MMORPG coupled with exploration and horseback riding elements using Unreal Engine 5.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Blue Scarab also announced that itraised $7 millionin its seed investment, led by CEO Colin Cragg and CTO Enno Rehling, in a bid to “forge new experiences for a wider audience than ever before.”
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Blue Scarab Entertainment’s Studio Director Craig Morrison has previously worked on franchises that include World of Warcraft, Battlefield, Age of Conan, and Anarchy Online, while the studio’s CEO Colin Cragg and CTO Enno Rehling working on Age of Conan and Anarchy Online.
“As the games industry has expanded, we have welcomed many new audiences. We believe there is space for fusing and evolving previous gaming and media experiences into something new and fresh for this expanded community,”saysCraig Morrison, Studio Director at Blue Scarab Entertainment. Continuing, “Innovation through iteration can be very powerful. Our goal is to bring all the expertise that our team has accumulated to forge new experiences for a wider audience than ever before. We want to try to defy genre expectations, while still leveraging all the skills and experience of the team we have assembled.”
Although not much at present is known about what the true crime MMORPG will entail or even be called, for someone who loves some grit in her gaming, this sounds right up my alley, so I’m really excited to see what Blue Scarab can pull out of the bag.
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