General News - Carbine Studios Team Includes WoW and Fallout Designers

Strictly speaking, this is MMO related news, but general rpg readers may be interested to hear that along with 17 ex-Blizzard employees including WoW lead developer Kevin Beardslee, former Fallout designer and Troika co-founder, Tim Cain joins the MMO developer, Carbine Studios, as vice president of design.

Gamasutra gives the basic information on NCSoft's latest online game developing company in a short clip here, while Gamespot has an interview with Beardslee and two other Carbine Studios developers about their latest project and set-up, including a bit about Cain's qualifications:

GS: Speaking of the creative, a lot of the Fallout fans were interested to hear that Tim Cain will be involved in the project. What has he been bringing to the game?

JG: Tim's kind of a triple threat because he is a super nice, experienced guy to work with who's seen all sorts of cool projects--from some of what I consider to be the best role-playing games of all time across a whole slew of genres. He's also a killer programmer, and he's also a top-notch designer. That's like, three good hires in one for Tim. And he's a friend of ours. He's worked with a number of the studio's founders before. So what he brings to the court is all of that. I think a lot of the same sensibilities led into the Fallout design and some of the neat aspects of that are making their way into this, especially as he codes systems that he coded in Fallout. On top of that, he's a great manager. We probably underpay him, actually. We'll go give him a raise after this talk.