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Fortnite and Call of Duty veterans raise $15m to form Methodical Games

Methodical Games is a new AAA games studio formed by games veterans from Epic Games, Respawn and Infinity Ward.

The team has raised $15m via a funding round that was led by Lightspeed Ventures. Other investors include Bitkraft Ventures, 1Up Ventures, Transcend Fund and Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment founder Jason West. Several angel investors are also involved.

The nine-person start-up team is led by three founders: Francesco Gigliotti, Adam Bellefeuil and Dave Ratti. Gigliotti is the CEO and Game Director and was most recently engineering fellow at Epic Games, where he helped create Fortnite. Prior to that he was a founding member of Respawn, leading the engineering team on Titanfall. He also spent eight years overseeing gameplay engineering on Call of Duty at Infinity Ward.

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source https://www.gamesindustry.biz/fortnite-and-call-of-duty-veterans-raise-15m-to-form-methodical-games