Former World of Warcraft, Fallout and Starcraft developers join up to create new studio

NCsoft recently aannounced the formation of a new development house – called Carbine Studios. The development team consists of a number of names from a selection of downright impressive titles, including World of Warcraft, Fallout and Starcraft. Some of these include Kevin Beardslee – formerly lead developer of WoW, Tim Cain – once the lead programmer and designer for Fallout, and Jeremy Gaffney – Executive Producer of City of Heroes.

Robert Garriott, CEO of NCsoft said “This is a dev team made in heaven, this group is as experienced as they come in the area of computer role playing and multiplayer game design. Making successful games is second nature to them. They are a very welcome addition to the NCsoft family. The gaming community should be excited to see what great things come out of Carbine Studios in the coming years.”

The next task for this team of grizzled games development veterans is, unsurprisingly, one of the hardest of them all – starting work on a brand spanking new MMO. The title has yet to be announced, but given that Carbine Studios is so well integrated with NCsoft, which recently entered an agreement with Sony to begin development of online games for the PS3, it might not be too huge an assumption to guess that a PS3 MMO could be on the cards...