Published on February 4, 2009 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Stardock announced today that it is expanding its current games division and will open a second games studio in Michigan.

The new studio will create up to 50 much-needed jobs in the state of Michigan and will be responsible for an as-of-yet unannounced RPG title developed and published by independent developer Stardock Entertainment.

When evaluating where to open the second studio, Stardock considered several other states in which to open it due to the relatively high costs of recruiting game developers and artists to Michigan as well as some of the technology infrastructure challenges Michigan faces.

However, Wayne County in conjunction with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation as well as Plymouth Township coordinated to provide tax incentives and access to better communication infrastructure in order to make Michigan a more competitive choice to open the new studio.

Stardock President and CEO Brad Wardell said, "We're very pleased with the support we've received from Wayne County and the state of Michigan. We think Michigan is well placed to become a hub for technology companies thanks to new programs from the state to make Michigan more competitive to do business in. We look forward to continuing our strong growth with additional development projects over the next couple of years."


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on Feb 04, 2009

No doubt. His pay is more than equal to a entire dev team sadly enough.

on Feb 05, 2009

The big publishers create way too many costs by letting every game development team trying to break the polygon count record. It doesn't matter how many games you sell, if you spend too much money creating the games.

Anyway, congratulations to Stardock with their new studio!

on Feb 05, 2009

Please refrain from making yet-another-Diablo clone and bring us some old school tactical turnbased RPG goodness by all means!

on Feb 05, 2009

Oh yes please. Something more like Wizardry, Bards Tale I - III, Pools of Radiance (but not D&D please).

 

on Feb 05, 2009

Ah well, maybe not *that* oldschool
Those are great examples but they're nothing more than number crunching dungeon crawls.

I was thinking of something like Fallout or Ultima VII (minus the awful combat). Big world, deep characters, choices and consequences that actually matter. You know, roleplaying.

on Feb 05, 2009

Only 6 years til I get done with college... Hopefully I can land a job with Stardock

on Feb 05, 2009

Hey, hows abot opening a location here in Florida? Mainly West Palm Beach? I wouldn tmind getting paid to test games.

on Feb 05, 2009

I'm glad to hear this, because...

A) Who doesn't want to see more Stardock games?

I'm a Michigander, and we COULD use more jobs.

I'd consider applying for one of those new positions if my lab at MSU wasn't already getting a $550-million expansion:

http://www.scienceandjobsformichigan.com/

on Feb 05, 2009

Carefull, if you grow too big we'll have to start to hate you too

Seriously though, it's nice to see you're doing good.

on Feb 05, 2009

Great to see such a gamer friendly operation such as Stardock expanding.  Proof that you can grow your computer games/apps business without relying on performance sapping DRM procedures.  You treat your customers like human beings instead of potenital pirates and they will come.  Yes, they will come.

 

EA, Ubisoft...sit up and take notice.

 

Congratulations to all the Stardock team.

on Feb 05, 2009

Congratulations, Brad and Stardock!

It does go to show you that customer satisfaction is the key to a healthy bottom line.  I'm glad to see a gamer go from programing his own game to the CEO of an expanding empire. 

Brad: Don't ever go public and lose your ability to control the company.

on Feb 05, 2009

MMO - BOOOOOO!!!!!

on Feb 05, 2009

I cannot wait to see Star Dock outmatch EA and Ubisoft.

on Feb 05, 2009

Long time lurker, first time poster (here of course)

 

Well it is awesome to live in Wayne county and have that 10 minute stroll to Stardock's Studio, i guess it would be nice to visit somewhere else to see more stardock too

on Feb 05, 2009

Well with all the layoffs in the industry there surely is not lack of talented people available for Frogboy to select from at the moment. Of course there is always the weather factor to contend with...

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