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E3: Richard Garriot Forms New Development Studio
During E3, Lord British made official what we've known for a few days via this press release: "Richard Garriott, the pioneering computer game designer and the creator of the popular Ultima series of computer games, is back in the business of making games after being out of the interactive entertainment industry news for the last year. Garriott today unveiled an online game development studio, Destination Games, located in Austin, Texas. Destination Games was founded in April of 2000 after Garriott's departure from Origin Systems. Garriott also announced that Destination Games would immediately become a part of NCsoft, a Korean-based company that currently operates the largest subscription-based online game in the world, Lineage: The Blood Pledge(tm). Garriott, along with other Destination Games and NCsoft officials made the announcement at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Garriott, and his brother Robert, a co-founder of Destination Games and the company's president and chief executive officer, have assembled the top talent in the online gaming industry. The team includes Starr Long, who along with Richard Garriott created Ultima Online, the first commercially successful subscription-based online game. Other members of the team previously worked on such titles as Asheron's Call, Air Warrior and the Command and Conquer series. Together they will join forces with Lineage creator and NCsoft Chief Creative Officer, Jake Song, to form the most prominent and experienced group of online game designers in the world. 'This is a match made in heaven,' says Richard Garriott. 'In just a few short years, Jake Song has established himself as one of the industry's top online game designers. Lineage now has more subscribers than Ultima Online, Everquest and Asheron's Call combined. It's a dominant market leader in the Asian markets. We're excited to leverage NCsoft and Jake's experience to help us launch our games in Asia.'"
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