Bethesda announces Roundhouse Studios, a new studio staffed by ex-Human Head Studios developers

Man Head Studios, the developer of games such as Prey (2006), The Quiet Man and Rune II, has closed its doors. That's the bad news. The skilful news is the entire team have new jobs as Bethesda Softworks rehired anybody at Human Head Studios and has opened a new studio called Roundhouse Studios.

"Sadly, we had to wind down the business concern of Man Head Studios and close its doors, which was specially devastating due to the passion and creativity of the team we'd assembled," said Chris Rhinehart, Creative Manager of Roundhouse Studios. "We reached out to our friends at Bethesda for help, and they saw that same creativity and passion in our squad. With the germination of Roundhouse Studios, Bethesda offered every employee of Human Head a position at the new visitor. We are excited our team will remain together, pursuing the work nosotros love, as part of a company nosotros already know and adore."

"While sorry to hear of their challenges equally Homo Caput Studios, we were excited past the opportunity to bring under the Bethesda umbrella this talented, established development team," said Todd Vaughn, Senior Vice President of Development at Bethesda. "We are delighted that the unabridged staff will remain together and is now part of the Bethesda family."

While we don't know what this new studio is working on yet, the press release does note that the studio is beginning work immediately on "unannounced projects." This could exist whatever i of a variety of genres, as the team at Roundhouse Studios has worked on a wide variety of games. Bethesda Softworks has continued growing over the last couple of years, integrating new studios as a part of Bethesda Game Studios in 2022 and acquiring Alpha Dog Games earlier in 2022.

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