Wargaming funds new Seattle mobile-game studio

Source: venturebeat.com article

Earlier I wrote a post on how WG wants to acquire a new mobile game studio. Wargaming has apparently financed new stealth game studio on Seattle. The studio doesn’t have an official name yet, but David Bluhm has been designated as its chief. To quote the post above:

“We think mobile games is still a relatively new space with massive upside,” Bluhm told GamesBeat. “Mobile is ripe for innovative and new core game mechanics.”

The studio will be separate from Wargaming Seattle (earlier Gas Powered Games under Chris Taylor), developing Xbox WoT.

34 thoughts on “Wargaming funds new Seattle mobile-game studio

  1. another failed venture. stop wasting the money we give u to fix wot for other shit nobody cares about

    • This year i became a student of IT. If somebody has no clue how programming and other stuff looks i’ll tell you. Writing a code is ULTRA easy itself, when you know terms and expressions. But CREATE a program in your mind – how it should look like, what functions do we need, how many variables to use to get shit works and other damn things aren’t easy to make. Now i can understand when game isn’t optimalised well – sometimes it needs to be rewritten to work as intended. And imagine about 500 – 1gb of pure code. Yes, there are some cases when game looks like this. (with all comments and stuff looking similar to diarrhea) And what those poor guys can do about it? Sometimes just one freaking not properly working equation or stuff can ruin entire endeavour. It’s impossible to check everything if it’s working properly. Because most dangerous factor for program is its user. On some circumstances and some hardware issues it can works buggy and imagine developer trying to fix it, despite its not a code fault itself. When i understood it i appreciate all games i’ve ever played in my entire life. Try to do this too.

      • So you say developers are poor people because they have to create sth. completely new in a logical based language? – Well that’s their job, so if they aren’t able to optimise a game you can blame them for this shit. Or do you say “Ohh guys @ Fukushima I can understand you completely that you are unable to solve the problems with this nuclear power station…” No you say what brainless bastard monkey are working their accepting that every day thousands of galeon of contaminated water get in the ocean.
        If you have a work you get well paid for you should expect a good product…

        • Just curious what you do? I’m guessing your still at school as you dont seem to undestand how things work in the real world…

    • Correction – You spend your money on gold/premium/tanks. You buy things with the money, you get something in exchange. You don’t give them the money as donation or don’t buy game optimalisation for it. So, no, they are not wasting your money, because you didn’t give it to them for what you whine about, but you gave them money for something else you wanted. And as long as you in return got what you bought you have no right to complain.

  2. Get those resumes in boys & girls to fill the open developer positions at WG’s new mobile gaming studio. *LOL*

  3. I can’t see where is the “fail” in this. Without any risks you can’t have any success. Wg too a risk few years ago: They created the first tank mmo game. They had no idea if will be a success or not.

    Now they try to expand which is the right choice. Also i’m quite sure that they don’t lower WoT’s allocated founds…They have enough money to buy stuff AND to keep developing WoT. It’s childish to complain that WG buys new stuff….

  4. That’s their money, if they are willing to waste them on stupid ideas instead od fixing WoT – they can do that. Move along, nothing to see here.

  5. who gives a shit? its obvious they want to expand. probably because wowp will fail hard and warships too.

  6. really you should report about the massive lags on eu server since long time!!! this must be on top all time until tard-wg solves that prblem. since wg introduced T7 car with its machinegun the servers are hopeless overhelmed, when a T7 car shots on me or somewhere near or on the game i am at all, my ping gets RED(beside the other lags though lol but with a T7 near its constantly red) and my shots simply disappear, fps go down to something like 10-20fps.

    • I have noticed nothing of what you are saying. Besides you yourself agree that you also have lags even without T7 being present. I’d say it’s the fault of your wooden PC and steam powered dial-up internet connection. Or programs running in the background.

      • Funnyli enough other games does not have such a problem… I’m not a previous poster, but yes, I can confirm lags on a rig that can eat crysis 3 on breakfast…

        • One question: Do you, per chance, use Gnomefather’s mods (or any other similar mods). If yes, you have your answer. If not, no clue really. Maybe other mods. As for the guy above, wooden PC and steam net seem to be the case.