Source: Shacknews
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Following the completion of World of Warcraft, several key team members left Blizzard to create a new MMO developer known as Red 5 Studios. Among Red 5's founders are World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern, now CEO of Red 5, as well as WoW art director Bill Petras and Blizzard Korea co-founder Taewon Yun. One of the latest of the increasing number of Blizzard spin-off studios, Red 5 managed to create an impressive reputation for itself while still keeping the details of its first game close to its chest. Last year, the team launched a targeted hiring campaign by sending personalized invitations to dozens of hand-chosen game developers, creating one of the most well-covered recruitment drives the games industry has seen. One of the recipients of these invitations was Scott Youngblood, who sports a diverse list of development credits including the lead designer role on Dynamix's Starsiege: Tribes, content creation for Anim-X and EA's ambitious alternate reality game Majestic, and multiplayer design for recent entries in Sony Bend's Syphon Filter franchise. I took some time to chat with Kern and Youngblood about what Red 5 is doing and what the company hopes to achieve.
