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Obsidian Entertainment is developing for a 'leading animation franchise'
Digital Development Management is like Gus from Breaking Bad. DDM works behind the scenes, making connections and taking advantage of opportunities while the patsies -- video game developers and publishers -- make the money. DDM represents some major studios, and it revealed some interesting information about their future projects in a recent corporate slideshow. Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and Dungeon Siege 3, is developing an "unannounced project for [a] leading animation franchise," according to DDM's presentation. It also says Need for Speed: Shift developer Slightly Mad Studios is working on an unannounced project, which could be its crowd-sourced venture, C.A.R.S. Triumph Studios, creator of the Overlord and Age of Wonders franchises, is also working on an unannounced title, DDM's presentation says. It's not too surprising that game-development studios are creating games, but details such as Obsidian's "leading animation franchise" get us curious. So far, we're hoping for Fallout: Seth MacFarlane Armageddon.
Ben Judd leaves Capcom for Digital Development Management
Another Capcom producer has exited the company, though the circumstances are much less mysterious in this case than when Keiji Inafune departed. Ben Judd, best known as the producer of Bionic Commando -- and as the English voice of Phoenix Wright -- has left the company, in order to run a new Japanese office for Digital Development Management, a talent agency for the video game industry. He is the "lead agent" for Asia. "Ben's breadth of publisher experience in Japan combined with our ever-expanding client roster allows DDM to generate and facilitate projects for publishers, brand and license holders, and investors now on a worldwide basis," DDM founder and managing partner Jeff Hilbert said in the announcement. Judd will work to connect developers and publishers, and coordinate deals between game companies. DDM currently represents developers [PDF link] including Ninja Theory, Slant Six Games, and Silent Hill: Downpour developer Vatra Games.
