{"id":24802,"date":"2012-10-05T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T07:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T07:41:07","slug":"bethesda-softworks-opens-battlecry-studios-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24802","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda Softworks Opens Battlecry Studios in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Long-time Industry Veteran Rich Vogel to Head Development at New Studio<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sydney, Australia \u2013 October 5, 2012\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Bethesda Softworks\u00ae, a ZeniMax\u00ae Media company, is pleased to announce it has established a new studio in Austin, Texas, Battlecry Studios, to be headed by long-time industry veteran Rich Vogel. Most recently, Vogel worked at Bioware where he served as the executive producer on the development of <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em>. Rich has a long history in the industry having worked on <em>Ultima Online <\/em>and <em>Star Wars Galaxies<\/em> as well as other online and console titles during his 20+ years in game development. The new studio is currently hiring other experienced game developers to fill key roles for an unannounced project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always admired and respected Bethesda\u2019s approach to making great, original games,\u201d said Vogel. \u201cIt\u2019s a belief and passion I share, and I\u2019m looking forward to building a team of high quality developers who want to bring that same commitment and creative energy to the games we\u2019ll be creating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to have someone with Rich\u2019s vast experience join us at Bethesda,\u201d said Vlatko Andonov, President of Bethesda Softworks. \u201cRich has a\u00a0history of building and managing talented development teams and bringing high quality games to market, and we look forward to working with him on a new exciting project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Battlecry Studios will be the second ZeniMax studio located in Austin, joining Arkane\u00ae Studios, whose highly-anticipated title, <em>Dishonored\u2122<\/em>, ships this month. For more information about Bethesda Softworks and available jobs at Battlecry Studios, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.zenimax.com\/\">http:\/\/jobs.zenimax.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Industry Veteran Rich Vogel to Head Development at New Studio\u00a0 Sydney, Australia \u2013 October 5, 2012\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bethesda Softworks\u00ae, a ZeniMax\u00ae Media company, is pleased to announce it has established a new studio in Austin, Texas, Battlecry Studios, to be headed by long-time industry veteran Rich Vogel. Most recently, Vogel worked at Bioware where he served<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=24802\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24808,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802\/revisions\/24808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}