Microsoft vets form Drifter Entertainment

A handful of developers with plenty of experience working on "next big thing" projects have formed a new start up that looks to combine two of the most buzzworthy fields in the industry today. Co-founders Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy today announced Drifter Entertainment, their new development studio dedicated to bringing eSports to virtual reality with games that are "built for social."

While both eSports and VR are emerging fields, the founding trio has an abundance of experience working in uncharted territory. Before his most recent post as GM for Unreal Engine 4, Davis was a CTO on Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality project. Murphy was a designer and creative director at Microsoft, working on HoloLens as well as Kinect and the Xbox One platform. Scott's background is more steeped in traditional AAA development, serving as art director on Halo 4 and lead artist on Doom 3, but he is coming off a stint at Oculus directing a development team working in VR.

"We're passionate about the opportunity to finally bring our vision to life," Davis said. "Virtual reality represents a rare opportunity to build an entirely new generation of game experiences to completely immerse yourself in. We're combining our expertise in crafting incredibly polished games along with our early expertise with VR to build some truly amazing (and fun!) games for these emerging platforms."