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History

BattleCry Studios was founded on October 3, 2012, as subsidiary of

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, headed by Rich Vogel as its

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. Initially, it sought employees with experience in microtransactions and

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games. By November 2013 the studio employed 35 people. On May 28, 2014, BattleCry Studios announced their first game, ''BattleCry''. On September 10, 2015, it was reported that the studio had laid off a "substantial portion" of its staff. On October 7, 2015, the development on ''BattleCry'' was halted for the studio to work on different projects. One of the studio's first projects following the hold of ''BattleCry'' was the modification and restructuring of Bethesda's Creation Engine (in conjunction with sister company

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, utilizing

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from '' Quake'') to support multiplayer functionality in anticipation of then upcoming ''

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''. In September 2017, Vogel announced that he had left BattleCry Studios in favor of

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. In March 2018, the studio was rebranded as Bethesda Game Studios Austin, making it the third studio under the

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banner within Bethesda Softworks. ZeniMax Media was acquired by

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for in March 2021 and became part of

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Games developed

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