NetEase sets up a new studio Bad Brain Games: Ubisoft veterans gather to develop illusory 5 open world adventure games

CTOnews.com May 24, NetEase recently set up a new studio overseas, Bad Brain Games, located in Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, which is currently developing a new story-driven action adventure game.

▲ source Bad Brain Games official website Bad Brain Games said that the work will be produced by Unreal engine 5, is an open-world game that can be played across platforms. It is inspired by American films from the 1980s and will be a mixture of adventure and horror.

The studio is led by Sean Crooks, the producer of "watchdog: legion" and "Storm: San Francisco". NetEase said they have recruited a team of senior developers who have participated in games such as the watchdog trilogy, isolated Island 2, Storm: San Francisco, the son of Light, full Dance, Cell Division: guilt, Cell Division: blacklist and Battlefield.

CTOnews.com Note: Bad Brain Games has nothing to do with NetEase Montreal Studio. NetEase Montreal Studio was founded in 2019 and recently hired Jonathan Morin, the creative director of the first two watchdog games. In Europe, NetEase also bought Quantic Dream, the developer of rainstorm. Earlier, NetEase bought Grassshopper Manufacture, the developer of "the end of Heroes" in 2021. In addition, NetEase also owns Nagoshi Studio, a subsidiary wholly owned by NetEase and founded by the founder of Rulong, Yue Yueyang, which specializes in developing high-end games.