{"id":54983,"date":"2018-11-08T03:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/former-ea-exec-patrick-soderlunds-new-studio-just-opened-but-it-has-big-plans\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T03:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:09:17","slug":"former-ea-exec-patrick-soderlunds-new-studio-just-opened-but-it-has-big-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/former-ea-exec-patrick-soderlunds-new-studio-just-opened-but-it-has-big-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Former EA exec Patrick S\u00f6derlund\u2019s new studio just opened, but it has big plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a few months after leaving his job at EA as chief design officer, Patrick S\u00f6derlund is ready to announce his next venture. Called Embark Studios, the company was revealed this evening at the earnings call for MapleStory<\/em> publisher Nexon in Tokyo. Embark is a collaboration of sorts, with Nexon serving as both a publisher and investor in the fledgling studio. S\u00f6derlund\u2019s team isn\u2019t ready yet to show off a game, but the former EA executive has big plans for the future. \u201cWe have a mass-market, large-scale ambition with what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

To create that, S\u00f6derlund says that the studio will make use of emerging technologies to build new kinds of online interactive experiences. The press release announcing Embark is filled…<\/p>\n

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Just a few months after leaving his job at EA as chief design officer, Patrick S\u00f6derlund is ready to announce his next venture. Called Embark Studios, the company was revealed this evening at the earnings call for MapleStory publisher Nexon in Tokyo. Embark is a collaboration of sorts, with Nexon serving as both a publisher… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t