Epic Games Acquires Chair Entertainment

Posted in Game Development on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:44 AM

While browsing gamedev.net this morning (Or was it yesterday? I can't seem to remember...) I read an interesting piece of news that stated that Chair Entertainment had been acquired by Epic Games, the makers of the Unreal Engine.

I met one of the co-founders of Chair, Geremy Mustard, back in Utah while I was attending BYU. At the time he was working on an Xbox/PC game called Advent Rising. Later, his brother and another fellow by the name of Ryan Holmes founded Chair.

I can't remember if I mentioned this in the past or not, but I actually did stop by Chair in Provo, UT late last year and met with Geremy to talk about the possibility of working there. They didn't really have a need at the time and I wasn't really looking to move back to Utah, so it either did or did not work out, depending on how you look at it.

Anyway, Geremy & Co. are fantastic fellows and it's really cool to see their success in being acquired by a very high-profile, well-known games company. I wish them the best of luck as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of Epic.

For more information, you can see the press release.

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