Ghost Games

Dice spin-off is haunting Gothenburg

January 14, 2013

Last year Electronic Arts launched a new Swedish game studio called EA Gothenburg. It has been eight years since Dice moved from Gothenburg to Stockholm.

Dice have now decided to create a new studio, Ghost in the center of Gothenburg. Here development of new games for the Need for Speed series will take place. The goal is to be as reputable as Dice.

The responsibility for the studio was fell to Marcus Nilsson, who had been working for Dice since 2002 and been a part of Dice’s former manager and the recent EA- “hot shot” Patrick Söderlund’s immediate workgroup.

The choice was not a coincidence. Nilsson himself worked at the former Dice Gothenburg office before it moved to Stockholm eight years ago. He also led the development of Need for Speed shift and it’s a Need for Speed game that the new studio will develop.

Computer Games create jobs

December 23, 2012

Gothenburg fall of 2012, was full of lay off in the job market, but not all companies are pulling the brake. The computer game company Ghost are hiring continuously.

Behind the modest almost unnoticeable entrance in the center of town you’ll find Gothenburg’s new game studio.

At Ghost, which is owned by gaming giant Electronic Arts around 65 people are working full time, with something that they are hoping to be the next big car racing game.

- We are making a driving game where you drive around and do crazy things while also playing with your friends, often through online functionality, says Marcus Nilsson, executive producer of Ghost games.