Meet Cold Iron, a new AAA studio working on an original sci-fi action game

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Cold Iron were originally established back in November of last year, but officially debuted to the public today.

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by Liam Andrews

@pass_controller

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The Silicon Valley based studio will focus on AAA online action games, and are already working on their first project after procuring full funding, which is described as an “original sci-fi title” and is being developed with the Unreal 4 engine. The game will be released on “consoles and PC.”

Cold Iron is run by a team of industry veterans, whose previous works include titles such as “Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Bioshock Infinite, Metroid Prime 3, DOOM, Atlas Reactor, Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate and the Borderlands franchise.”
 
Studio Founder and CEO, Craig Zinkievich, had a few words to say about the studio going public:
 
“We couldn’t be more excited to finally introduce the world to Cold Iron. We decided to start this studio last year with exactly one goal in mind: to create compelling games that we wanted to play absolutely all the time,” he said.
 
“To do that, we put together a pitch, built a great prototype, got fully-funded, and are now building an unstoppable team. We’re working hard on a AAA online action game that is literally out of this world, and we cannot wait to share it with you.”

You can read a bit more about the three founding members of the Cold Iron team below:
 
“Craig Zinkievich (Founder/CEO) has over 13 years of experience designing and developing award-winning MMO games. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at Cryptic Studios, one of the leading developers of massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Prior to leading the studio as COO, he was a leader for three of the studios’ most financially successful and critically acclaimed titles. He was Lead Producer on the popular classic, City of Heroes and Executive Producer/Game Director on the iconic sci-fi MMO, Star Trek Online, and the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG, Neverwinter.”
 
“Shannon Posniewski (Founder/CTO) is a veteran game developer and designer with over 25 years of professional programming experience. At Cryptic Studios, he held several roles, including Principal Programmer, Director of Game Programming, and Game Director. Shannon was involved in every title the studio produced, including City of Heroes/Villains, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and Neverwinter.”
 
“Matt Highison (Founder/Creative Director) has served as Lead Artist for several successful MMO games. Most recently, he was the Art Director for Neverwinter, the D&D MMORPG set along the iconic Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms. He has also served as the Senior Lead Character Artist at Cryptic Studios, where he designed in-game character models and uniforms for Star Trek Online and Champions Online.”
 
No time frame was given for when Cold Iron are planning to release their game, or whether it was privately funded or they have the backing of a big publisher, but you can speculate all that and more with us over in the forums or in the comments below.

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