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The Studio That Kept Changing Games
A studio born from skate games made a Tolkien survival hit, then put the tools in players' hands. Its less obvious skill is knowing when to build its own world and when to help another studio finish theirs.
Torn Banner Built a 10-Million-Copy Kingdom From a Free Mod - Then Learned How to Survive Its Own Misses
The Toronto studio found its edge in public, stumbled when it wandered from it, and rebuilt around a simple idea: make combat worth talking about, then let the players show you what to fix.
Windup Minds
Windup Minds is a Seattle-based, remote-first independent game studio building the next generation of virtual pets for virtual and mixed reality. Founded in 2023 by a crew of veterans from Oculus, EA, Microsoft and Bungie, the studio's debut, Stay: Forever Home, drops a magical companion named Ember into your living room via Meta Quest passthrough - a pet you feed, play with, and grow attached to. The bet: VR and MR are the only mediums that can make a digital creature feel genuinely, instinctively real.