Former MachineGames developers Michael Paixao and Joel Jonsson have announced the establishment of Bad Yolk, a new game studio based in Sweden.

Bad Yolk is made up of 10 senior AAA developers with a combined 90-plus years of experience and 14-plus AAA titles shipped, including Chronicles of Riddick, EVE Online, Gears of War, The Division, The Darkness, and more. The studio aims to “attract the best talent by offering a healthy and happy work-life balance, and thus, make the greatest, most creative and technically superior games possible.”

The studio is already underway on developing its first, as yet unannounced, new intellectual property.

“After years of working with some extremely talented people on some really great projects we felt it was time to branch out on our own to create a new kind of studio,” said Paixao in a press release. “Obviously high quality video games should be fun to play, but we also believe that they should be fun to make and that creativity thrives best in a healthy and balanced work environment, which is a central pillar of our corporate message and structure.”

Find short bios of Bad Yolk’s founders below.