Lightspeed and Quantum Studios Group, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, announced today the newly formed Uncapped Games Studio. The newly formed studio is led by game development veterans David Kim and Jason Hughes, who will assemble and lead a team of top industry talent. Uncapped Games will be creating an action-packed real-time strategy game for PC to be revealed at a later date.
Located in Playa Vista, Calif., Uncapped Games will be focused on building an industry-leading pool of talent that bring unique perspectives and skill sets to develop games at the studio. Uncapped Games is committed to creating an environment that is focused deeply on great game making, while at the same time being a value-driven place to work that puts what’s good for the game above any decisions based on ego.
“One of our main priorities with Uncapped Games is to empower great game developers to enjoy what they do best and foster an environment that lends itself to developing amazing games,” said Lead Producer Jason Hughes.
“Making the next great PC RTS has been my goal for almost a decade now, and Lightspeed and Quantum is giving us an awesome shot at making that,” said Lead Designer David Kim. “Putting together a team of great developers with lots of experience and being backed by the right people who also believe in RTS as much as we do, is our first big step in getting there.”
Uncapped Games wants to not only recruit but retain top talent to keep making amazing games for years to come. The studio is currently hiring for a variety of roles across all game development disciplines including coding, design and art direction.
“Uncapped Games is going to be an exciting new studio that fans of the real-time strategy game genre will want to follow,” said Jerry Chen, vice president of Tencent, president of Lightspeed & Quantum Studios. “I am a huge fan of action-packed RTS games, so I pushed hard to bring them on and make this project happen. They’re a great example of our philosophy around building studios which is ‘go to where the talent is,’ and with Uncapped Games, that led us to David and Jason. We couldn’t be more excited to see what this team is going to build.”