Crytek, the studio known for various payment problems regarding their employees, closed five of their development studios go at the beginning of December. One of those five studios was Crytek Black Sea, based out of Sofia, Bulgaria. Here’s the interesting part, though: after the ties with Crytek were cut, Black Sea’s original founder Vesselin Handjiev decided to rejuvenate his studio with a tweaked name and a goal to make great games in the company’s post-Crytek era.
Handjiev has been at the helm since Black Sea Studio’s founding in 2001 and the company released both Knights of Honor and WorldShift before working with Crytek. Now, as Black Sea Games, the studio hopes to refocus their efforts on making “hard-core games that will entertain you over and over again.”
According to PC Gamer, the studio already is hard at work with an unannounced project. As PC Gamer says, the game Arena of Fate a free-to-play MOBA was in the works prior to the studio’s closure by Crytek and that game’s fate “isn’t known.”
What’s interesting to note is that, on Black Sea Games’ official Twitter, @BlackSeaGames, the first tweet announcing their existence came in mid-November, a month before the studio’s closure by Crytek was made public:

Hello World,
Black Sea Games, an independent game studio was just launched with one mission… to entertain you!

— Black Sea Games (@BlackSeaGames) November 11, 2016

Nonetheless, a week ago the company opened their official website, blackseagames.com, and will continue to fill it as the studio, and its games, develop. As Black Sea Games continues development of their games and their studio as a whole, we’ll be sure to report what’s new and need-to-know.
Via: PC Gamer