Former Halo and Control developer launches new studio with NetEase

343 Industries and Remedy veteran Paul Ehreth founded a new development studio called Anchor Point with NetEase to make action-adventure games, Ehreth announced in a statement. Anchor Point is based in Barcelona, Spain, with a satellite office in Seattle. Both are open for remote and on-site work.

Ehreth formerly worked on Control and Alan Wake 2 at Remedy and Halo 4 and Halo 5 with 343 Industries.

“We’re so excited to officially drop our anchor in Barcelona, the hometown of my great-grandparents, and start building a strong team for our journey of exploration together with NetEase Games,” Ehreth said in the statement. “We’re grateful to NetEase Games for giving us the creative freedom and resources to build this interconnected world that will expand beyond games and reach into other mediums as well.”

Ehreth didn’t suggest what Anchor Point’s first project is or when the studio plans to launch it, but whatever it is, it will release for PC and console.

Anchor Point is NetEase’s latest in a line of studios and projects intended to establish a stronger foothold for the company in the global games industry. In 2022, NetEase recruited Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, and helped him set up his own studio.

NetEase also partners with Behaviour Interactive to create and publish the mobile version of Dead by Daylight.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF