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Company News From Big Huge to Epic: Big Huge Games Leadership Team Now Epic Baltimore

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Tags: 38 Studios; Big Huge Games; Epic Games

In today's letter, Epic Games president Mike Capps has announced his decision to hire what he calls "the ex-BHG leadership team", unemployed due to 38 Studios' recent downfall, for a new Epic studio in Baltimore:

Big Problems Need Huge Solutions

Our heart goes out to the people affected by the unfortunate events surrounding 38 Studios and its subsidiary in Baltimore, Big Huge Games. Through it all, the team stayed together in a way that’s been really heartwarming to see. The team kept working, hoping that there’d be a way to secure last-minute funding and save the company. People brought extra food into the office to help those unable to pay their bills. And last week, in bittersweet irony, Big Huge Games was named to Game Developer’s Top 30 studios in the world list.

You may be wondering why I’m writing all this – and it’s because Epic is going to do something to help them, and we want people to understand why we think it’s the right thing to do.

On Wednesday, the ex-BHG leadership team contacted us. They wanted to start a new company and keep together some of the key talent displaced by the layoff, and hoped that they could use an Epic IP as a starting point for a new game. We loved that they all wanted to keep working together, but it was pretty clear they’d have trouble building a demo and securing funding before their personal savings ran out.

In one of life’s coincidences, Epic’s directors had spent the morning discussing how we’d love to build even more successful projects with our growing team, but that we’d need a dramatic infusion of top talent to do so. Which, we all knew, was impossible.

So now we’re planning to start an impossible studio in Baltimore. : )

It’ll take a while to find space, set up desks and PCs, purchase sufficient Nerf weaponry and Dr. Pepper, etc. But some of these folks have been going too long without a paycheck to wait for that. So, as soon as we can, we’re going to try to get people working down here at Epic headquarters in Cary, NC as contractors.

There’s a million things to work out. How many of the team can we hire? What will it be called? What will they be working on? We don’t know all the answers yet. Please give us some time to figure it out; we hope to have more to share soon.

The way we see it, there’s been a big storm in Baltimore, and we’re taking in a few of the refugees — as are the awesome folks at Zynga East, Zenimax Online, and other southeastern studios. Epic’s in a situation where we can do this, and it very clearly fits with our company values, so we’re going to give it a whirl.

Dr. Michael Capps​

It is unclear who exactly the "leadership team" is composed of, but Ian S. Frazier of Ultima V: Lazarus fame is definitely there. As the rumor goes, they will work on a new action-RPG IP for Epic (based perhaps on one of Epic's existing IPs), but at this point the company itself probably does not yet know what exactly Epic Baltimore is going to be working on. We'll keep you informed, of course.
 

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So that means we're now getting a colorful fantasy Gears of War? How declinely.
You mean inclinely. Colorful fantasy GoW >>>> banal,shit,boring macho space marine GoW with brown everywhere.
 

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If they're going to work on an Epic property, I expect we'll soon get Jazz Jackrabbit RPG.
 

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Big Huge Games was a good company, so I'm glad. Kingdoms of Derp wasn't the only game they did and their first rpg. They should atleast get a chance.
 

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since reimaginings are cool these days how about Unreal Tournament Manager, like football manager except you manage your squad of celebrity killers
:thumbsup:
 

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