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World of Tanks studio acquires F.E.A.R. 3 dev

Eddie Makuch
By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Wargaming buys Day 1 Studios for $20 million; now working on unannounced console game.

World of Tanks studio Wargaming today announced it had acquired F.E.A.R. 3 developer Day 1 Studios for $20 million and is putting the team to task on an unannounced console title. The company will be rebranded Wargaming West.

Wargaming is developer of numerous PC massively multiplayer online games, including World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes.

This marks Wargaming's first-step effort in the console space. Platforms for the company's new console game were not announced, nor was a timetable for its release.

Wargaming West currently has a handful of open positions, including calls for an IT Administrator, a producer, and multiple part-time quality assurance staffers.

Day 1 was founded in 2001 by ex-FASA Interactive veteran Denny Thorley and Microsoft Game Studios' TJ Wagner. Out of the gate, the studio scored a hit with 2002's MechAssault for the original Xbox. After a MechAssault follow-up in 2004, the studio created the original property Fracture for LucasArts and then took over for Monolith on Warner Bros. Interactive's F.E.A.R. 3.

Eddie Makuch
By Eddie Makuch, News Editor

Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.

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tgwolf
tgwolf

I don't see this as an asset...And you shouldn't either.

AlexFili
AlexFili

You'd think it would be the other way around, wow.

MW2ismygame
MW2ismygame

Well the franchise cant be driven into the ground any further so why the hell not it cant go anywhere but up, ill give them a chance.

NOW WHERE IS THE WO WARSHIPS BETA ? 

Mariner32
Mariner32

@MW2ismygame Hold your horses. World of Warplanes is still in closed beta. Give them time to fully release that before they move on to a new game.


That said, I completely agree that the World of Warships beta cannot come soon enough.

Raxyman
Raxyman

GREAT.

This way who knows? Maybe they'll leave the next FEAR to a COMPETENT developer, not a toady-CoD-lover one.

santinegrete
santinegrete

The studio that didn't make FEAR3 as bad as I expected? Oh, I'm wondering what kind of project is that.

MAD_AI
MAD_AI

For a sec I thought that they bought Monolith Studios, what a relief.

firedrakes
firedrakes

that studio was not the greatest

wexorian
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F.E.A.R 1 was aweosme 2 nd game So so, 3rd Catasthrophe sadly.

AuronAXE
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I hope they work on new IP's. We don't need anymore F.E.A.R. games, they were good while they lasted.

ArataWata
ArataWata

$20 million?

Would it be crazy to say I think that's cheap for the game industry?

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