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Epic Games Announces Impossible Studios!

Epic Games, Inc. announces the opening of Impossible Studios, a company comprised of highly skilled, senior-level game development talent. Based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Impossible is the latest addition to Epic’s network, which includes corporate headquarters in Cary, North Carolina; ChAIR Entertainment in Salt Lake City, Utah; People Can Fly in Warsaw, Poland; Epic Games Korea in Seoul, Korea; and Epic Games Japan in Yokohama, Japan.

Led by studio director Sean Dunn, Impossible’s first project is the touch-based action role-playing game “Infinity Blade: Dungeons” for iOS. “Infinity Blade: Dungeons,” which was conceived at Epic’s Cary studio, is being developed in collaboration with Epic and ChAIR under Impossible’s roof in Maryland.

“We were so glad we could help keep this great team together, and we’re lucky to have them,” said Epic Games President Dr. Michael Capps. “At the time, I said that finding a full team of superstars was ‘impossible’ and apparently the name stuck! Pairing the imagination and experience of Impossible with Epic’s technology, IP and resources makes for a business greater than the sum of its parts.”

Capps will lead an “Infinity Blade: Dungeons” panel with the game’s lead designer, Ian Frazier, and author, Brandon Sanderson, at Dragon*Con in Atlanta on August 31. “Infinity Blade: Dungeons” is set for release on the App Store later this year.

Pictured left to right: Ian Frazier, Phil Teschner, Sean Dunn, Michael Fridley, Bryant Freitag, Tim Coman

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    • http://twitter.com/Timmzy27 Matthew Timms

      That is some very strange GoW3 TU news.

    • http://reflectzyn.com K.L. Smith

      More iOS goodies for me to play :)

    • Aaron Walker

      That’s awesome! Can’t wait to see some awesome stuff coming out of there!

    • http://twitter.com/JackSheets Jack Sheets

      Impossibru!

    • http://twitter.com/kiggle kiggle

      AWESOME. You guys hiring? Background in Test/PM with a specialty in mobile, hit me up, I’m in Charlottesville, VA :-)

    • shadow

      Im a gamer i play games a lot>are you guy hiring?

    • xhy.arts

      sad to say im not qualified, im still student. but willing to learn and aiming for senior level game development skills.

    • http://twitter.com/JeffGoodsill Jeff Goodsill

      Congratulations. Go kick some ass guys

    • Matt

      Their slogan should totally be “Demand The Impossible”

    • gnash

      I want an Impossible Studios shirt with the new logo. That is all.

    • http://twitter.com/King_Mark247757 Mark

      Nice!

      I wouldnt mind if epic bought the rights to Kingdoms of Amalur back off Rhode Island. I’d like to see a Kingdoms of Amalur 2.

      • MistrSpeed

        I don’t think that will happen. Might be a good fit for Microsoft though.

    • Ethan Lewis

      YAY!

    • http://www.nerfbat.com/ Ryan Shwayder

      Congratulations, guys and gals! Glad to see that this happened to my old compatriots at 38 Baltimore. Make some awesome games and keep in touch!

    • http://twitter.com/JSFxICEMAN Patrick Larsen

      Inconceivable!!!

    • iFlak

      So happy to be working with you guys!

    • http://twitter.com/CHAINS4W Connor (CHAINS4W) H.

      YES. I LIVE 2 MINUTES AWAY

    • greg

      well i used to get enthousiastic about epic related news, but several decisions you made successively since 5/6 years just had me completely divorce with anything “made in Epic ent.”
      I mean by that, simply, i avoid sight crossing with your products on any plateforme now.
      allow me to explain myself: i play on PS3 and ANDROID (newly galaxy S3, amazing pocket computer!)

      but here after taking the time to come and post here, you would believe i didn’t completely turn my back? _there’s a slight chance you would think, if i see you cutting edge IPs coming near where i can touch them?
      _not sure yet.
      But i’d really like to get to understand what had you abandon me and guys like me in the first place! did we get contagious of any sort of leprosy by loving the PS3 or ANDROID?
      …i don’t think so.
      thanks for reading that, and trying to understand my point as just a guy, not as a simple and dirty customer with coins in his pocket to harvest

      • http://twitter.com/kiggle kiggle

        I’m sure you’re really bummed that Epic doesn’t spend incredible amounts of money porting their games to Android so that you can pirate them…

        • greg

          hello “sidia user”!
          you thought I’m your relative prolly but you’re completely mistaken..
          most piracy is done through iphone dialbreaking.
          anyway where can you make such assumptions about someone you don’t know any shit about? ..sire Almighty..

    • http://twitter.com/BurstDragon Kush

      By the tome it worked!!! The Well of Souls is functional, yay.

    • Yungmaster

      I would love to see Epic do a Masters of The Universe RPG. No ones ever touched on the He-man universe in a game and It’s got the elements of Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning written all over it but much deeper, and exciting. I think Epic should Jump on it. Wish I knew how to make games. I would mock up a beta and present it to them.

    • http://twitter.com/x50_Spence Rob Spencer

      the best developers happen to be the worst dressed..

    • http://www.facebook.com/laura.spencercox Laura Spencer-Cox

      Amalur2? Kickstarter project maybe?

    • http://www.facebook.com/laura.spencercox Laura Spencer-Cox

      Amalur 2? A kickstarter project maybe?

    • sanxing155

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    • IBFREAK

      SO EXCITED FOR INFINITY BLADE DUNGEONS! at first it looked dissapointing, but as I looked into it, it looked wonderful.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Jared1260 Jared Anderson

      I am so happy to see this team stay together. I am absolutely in love with Kingdoms of Amalur. I know that Rhode Island is going to sell off the IP, any chance that this company would be able to pick it back up to patch and continue it and then develop Kingdoms of Amalur 2? That would be amazing.

    • http://wpcprolife.com Cup o Joe

      FIX CATAN PLEASE!

    • ORIC

      Maybe now Rhode Island can have it’s intellectual Property back!

    Posted by Flak Aug 09, 2012 Last Updated Aug 09, 2012
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