Magic Soup Games: New Studio From Ex-Blizzard Execs Cooking Up Unique AAA Games

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Former Blizzard Entertainment executives Jen Oneal, J. Allen Brack and John Donham have announced Magic Soup Games, a fully-remote game development studio co-founded by the three that seeks to create AAA games “that are genuinely uplifting and inclusive for players around the world.” Currently, it is working on an unannounced game that it touts as not fitting “into any existing genre today.”

Oneal, Brack, and Donham all left Blizzard Entertainment over the course of the last few years amidst the company’s significant legal troubles with well-documented allegations of fostering sexual harassment and a “frat boy” workplace culture. The trio’s shared values have kept them together past their Blizzard tenures, and Magic Soup Games embodies their people-first mindset with a collaborative kitchen theme.

The studio currently only has five people and refers to its employees as “chefs,” all working together to create “awesome games from a kind of creative soup.” Its aim is to “to build original AAA games that are genuinely uplifting and inclusive for players around the world.” Oneal said of the studio’s first upcoming project:

It’s too early to discuss the details. But the spirit is that we will lean on our experience building triple-A games and triple-A teams to create something that brings out the best in people, that celebrates the positive power of what this medium can express. We’re working on something that doesn’t fit neatly into any existing genre today.

More details about the studio’s culture and career opportunities can be found over at its official website. Once Magic Soup Games reveals more details about its projects, we’ll be sure to let our readers know.

(Oneal’s comments were provided by VentureBeat.)

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