A team of former PopCap developers announced they are launching a new company called Electric Manta. Managed by founder and CEO Mark Cochrane, the launched free-to-play mobile game studio will be based in London. Their goal is to bring new games to billions of players.
The new team includes former PopCap members Elizabeth Sampat, Alexis De Girolami, and Liam Robinson. Among other members are Stewart Perry (former head of tools and tech at publisher Kwale) and Gaurav Mehta (former executive producer at Zynga’s Casino Match Studio.
"I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to set up Electric Manta. I was lucky enough to snag Elizabeth and some other PopCap alumni to join the team," said Cochrane. "We wanted to come out of stealth mode and announced the studio."
The team worked on games that collectively have been downloaded more than 3 billion times: Plants vs. Zombies 2, Subway Surfers, Hungry Shark World, Bejeweled Stars, Draw It!, and more. The team will work on different projects including hypercasual games, narrative-driven stories, and player-vs.-player games.
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