Criterion Veterans Launch Fuse Games, a New AAA Game Studio

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Five veterans of Criterion Games decided to leave the studio in December following the launch of its latest game, Need for Speed Unbound, and while their future plans weren't clear at the time, they certainly are now. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Matt Webster, Steve Uphill, Pete Lake, Andrei Shires, and Alan McDairmant have reunited to form Fuse Games, a new studio that describes itself as a world-glass game development studio that aims to create genre-leading, player-first AAA interactive entertainment. Webster, who serves as the studio's general manager, declined to confirm whether his first project would be another racing game, but he says that one of the goals of the studio is to make games "quickly and healthily."

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