The New Tales team’s members formerly worked at Activision Blizzard, LucasArts, SEGA, Sierra, or Ubisoft.

The Paris-based studio announced its formation. Via its internal names, it works on new IPs while also providing publishing services to game developers through fair partnerships internationally. The company’s founders have an average of 22 years of experience in the games industry. They have worked on franchises such as Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Crash Bandicoot, Diablo, EverQuest, Half-Life, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Star Wars: Jedi Knight, Sonic the Hedgehog, and World of Warcraft. The list is impressive.

The founding staff includes Cedric Marechal (we’ll mention their respective position; president and CEO), who has almost three decades of experience within the industry working for companies like Blizzard, Vivendi Games, SEGA, and Cryo, and having previously served as international senior vice president of Activision Blizzard; Benoit Dufour (chief operating officer), a former global vice president of Activision Blizzard who also worked at Vivendi Games; Delphine Le Corre (chief growth officer), a former senior director EMEA at Blizzard and also worked at Vivendi Games; Emmanuel Obert (chief content officer), a former EMEA director at Blizzard after an initial career at Ubisoft; Kim Gresko (senior adviser of game development), a former composite artist at LucasArts and co-founder of Blue Silver Studios; Ray Gresko (senior adviser of game development), a former global chief development officer at Blizzard and co-founder of Blue Silver Studios; and Julia Humphreys (senior adviser of game development), a former Overwatch production director at Blizzard and senior producer at Seven Studios.

“We have formed a team of passionate gamers with an unrivalled degree of experience, having grown some of the biggest IPs and player communities. Gaming has rarely seen such an exciting time, fueled by tons of innovation and creativity. However, the frequency of new releases keeps rising rapidly, reinforcing the need for great international publishing. New Tales is a one-stop-shop publishing solution where we will work with developers as one united team dedicated to maximizing success. We are also building our internal production capabilities to develop our games and IPs. We are looking forward to joining forces with people who share our values and passion!” Marechal wrote in the press release.

New Tales is already working with partners “who share its ambition and values” aside from their unique IP. Best of wishes to them!

Source: Gematsu