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EA acquires game company founded by ex-Bungie president, Industrial Toys

Fourteen-person studio will work on new experiences at EA

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Space shooter Midnight Star hits App Store in Ireland

Midnight Star, the space shooter from Industrial Toys, is now available on iOS in the App Store in Ireland, the studio announced yesterday. Referring to this soft-launch release as version 0.1,...

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Midnight Star tablet shooter raises $5M, set to launch this summer

Halo creator Alex Seropian's current studio Industrial Toys raised $5 million in funding from venture equity firm Accel Partners to developed its free-to-play online tablet shooter, Midnight Star. ...

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Midnight Star's grand plan to bring an epic shooter to touchscreens might just work

Can the first-person shooter be reinvented — and truly work — on a mobile touchscreen? That's what the creators of Midnight Star, a frantic, skill-focused shooter for tablets and smartphones, are...

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Halo co-creator's tablet shooter rebranded to Midnight Star

Industrial Toys' upcoming first-person shooter for tablets, Morning Star, has been rebranded to Midnight Star after the developers discovered another trademark application for name, according to a G...

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Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian: The Polygon interview

I recently visited Pasadena, Calif.-based Industrial Toys for a feature article on the company's new game and digital comic book, Morning Star and Morning Star Alpha. In the course of this visit, I...

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BioShock Infinite, Xbox One, EA, Alex Seropian: Speed Run

Irrational Games finally pulled back the curtain on downloadable content for BioShock Infinite. Microsoft detailed the Xbox One's Smart Match matchmaking feature. Electronic Arts has requested a...

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Morning Star: Alex Seropian's crazy plan to change the world of video games, again

Two years ago, Alex Seropian was on the top of the world. And he hated it. As vice president of development at Disney Interactive, Seropian oversaw the venerable entertainment company's entire...

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Ex-Bungie head's mobile shooter will have an evolving, interactive comic companion

The release of Industrial Toys' mobile shooter Morning Star will be predated by Morning Star Alpha, a digital comic experience that will expand upon the full game, the developer unveiled today. T...

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Ex-Bungie dev's Morning Star promises to deliver a deep sci-fi shooter to touch screen devices

Shaped by the writing of the author of Old Man's War and developed by the studio started by the former head of Halo-creator Bungie, Morning Star is the latest game aiming to recreate the shooter...