A confrontation in Something Wicked's Wyrdsong.
A confrontation in Something Wicked's Wyrdsong.
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Bethesda veteran Jeff Gardiner raises $13M for Something Wicked Games to make open world RPG

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jeff Gardiner and other veterans from Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment have started Something Wicked Games to make an open world role-playing game.

The team raised $13.2 million to make Wyrdsong, a “preturnatural” open world role-playing game with triple-A values, Gardiner said in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.