Former Titanfall and Apex Legends developers start new game studio

Developers from all kinds of well-known game studios, such as Respawn Entertainment and Naughty Dog, have set up a new studio. It’s Wildlight Entertainment. The new company says it has been working on a new game for a while.

On the Wildlife Entertainment website the team says it’s focused on “creating large, brutal, original game universes of epic quality and scale.” The company announced on Twitter that it has “big dreams of creating an epic shooter IP.” It is not clear how long the studio has been working on the new title and when it should be released. Some concept art already appears on the website. It shows some people equipped with a bow and guns.

Presumably, the company is currently working on a shooter. That is also somewhat obvious given the experience and background of the 28 developers in the team. Almost all of them have worked on Apex Legends and one of the Titanfall games, but there are also veterans who have worked on Call of Duty and Star Wars games, God of War, Halo and Uncharted. These include former developers of Respawn, Infinity Ward, Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica.

Wildlight was founded by Dusty Welch and Jason McCord who now serve as CEO and design director, respectively. Welch has previously worked at Respawn and Activision Blizzard, and McCord has also been at Respawn. Chad Grenier is the head of the studio and game director; previously he was game director of Apex Legends. Grenier left Respawn last year after being a part of it for more than a decade.

The studio has offices in Los Angeles and Seattle, though the company says remote work is a priority. The company stands for a philosophy of work in which employees should be given the opportunity to work where they are most productive.