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Medal of Honor devs Fallout at WhiteMoon Dreams

Industry vets Campbell, Koottarappallil, and Mack form indie studio focused on Wii, 360, and PS3 development; one Japanese-backed project in the works.

With Bethesda Softworks keyed up to loose a nuclear winter later this year with Fallout 3, some top developers of Interplay's original Fallout have begun turning up at startup studios. In October, Fallout lead designer Tim Cain surfaced at NCsoft's Carbine Studios as programming director for the fledgling development house's as-yet-unnamed massively multiplayer online game. Today, Fallout's lead concept designer Scott Campbell has reemerged as the creative director at the newly founded WhiteMoon Dreams.

Campbell joins several other industry veterans at the Pasadena, California-based independent outfit. Serving as president and CEO will be Jay Koottarappallil, who has filled various art roles at Looking Glass Studios, Paradox Development, Insomniac Games, and EALA. WhiteMoon's game director will be another EALA vet, Kevin Mack, whose credits include senior game designer on the Medal of Honor series.

Currently employing 11 staffers, WhiteMoon plans to focus on "AAA titles" for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii. In addition to offering a range of development services, WhiteMoon plans to create original properties that will appeal to the mass-market audience, with an emphasis on strong game design and concepts. The studio currently has one unnamed project in the works with backing from "a major Japanese publisher."

Although currently only a placeholder page, WhiteMoon's just-launched Web site is expected to have more updates from the studio as they develop.

15 Comments

  • pourya_ahmadian

    Posted Mar 6, 2008 9:30 am GMT

    no,never escaped minds can set the true dream;i think they are finished;

  • SrTVBR

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:57 pm GMT

    Only time will tel if will be a good deal

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:36 pm GMT

    Capcom or to a lesser extend Konami.

  • Holopaw

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:35 pm GMT

    Cool.

  • umd1998

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:19 pm GMT

    These guys are good. I'll be keeping an eye on their work...

  • dukerav

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 2:13 pm GMT

    Dunno why but my money is on Capcom, anyway, nice group of people formed here, cant wait to see what they turn out.

  • AnFangs_Endes

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 1:28 pm GMT

    Yes X-RS, it's Sony. That's why they're also planning games on the 360 and Wii.

  • Demmi_Argo

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 1:26 pm GMT

    major japanese publisher... Perhaps Konami? Or capcom? RPGs don't really appeal to the mass audience so I'd leave square out of the picture.

  • X-RS

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 12:48 pm GMT

    my guess is sony.

  • peeweeshift

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 12:38 pm GMT

    major jpnese publisher.....square?

  • razu_gamer2

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 12:23 pm GMT

    hmmm

  • mariokart64fan

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 12:20 pm GMT

    well your definition of aaa may be different from some, and the game has no info on it so for all we know it can be aaa on all 3 systems, re4 wii edition re uc medal of honor heroes 2 and manhunt 2 prove what aa or aaa titles can be for wii ,,

  • Deluka

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 11:22 am GMT

    we'll see what happens in what they can produce

  • shaddix55

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 11:07 am GMT

    Sweet. Sounds like a fun company that's starting up. I look forward to your new X360 games!

  • xcollector

    Posted Mar 5, 2008 10:56 am GMT

    You know they are full of #$&%* when they say they're making a AAA title for the wii.

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