Wingstar Studios

Wingstar Studios (formerly "Balls" Studios Montréal and "Balls" Studios Los Angeles) was a Canadian development studio, and formerly the biggest studio, owned by "Balls". It formerly owned Wingstar Online Studios and Wingstar Los Angeles, before 2015, when they were merged to "Balls" headquarters in Boston.

In June 2015, all remaining 3 employees of Wingstar Studios were hired by GreenyWorld Interactive. 2 remaining employees, Kenny Miller and Josh Byron went to work at GreenyWorld Interactive's New York studio, while the last employee, Duncan Grodin, went to work at EA Canada, announcing the closure of Wingstar Studios.

History
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Studios
Also, despite the fact that many Wingstar studios are usually developing online games, they assist Wingstar Studios in other kinds of games. Wingstar sold Hunt Valley and Austin studios, while Seoul studio was merged to "Balls" in 2015.

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Games

 * Mikkoman & Eetuman: The Pocket Game (Xbox One, Android, iOS, PS4, PS Vita, 3DS, Wii U, Linux/OS X), since November 2014.
 * More coming soon!

List

 * Wingstar Engine - created in 2015.

History
The studio acquired the staff from studios owned by Equinoxe Digital Entertainment and middleware, like Tatsu lighting tool/physics engine, Infernal Engine, Sketcher Engine model creation tool/game engine/face animation tool, PhD motion poster creation/3D photo editing/illustration tool and kAI and mAI artificial intelligence engines.

Later on, Sketcher model creation and face animation tools were sperated from the game engine itself; and was renamed Sketcher Model Pro. Tatsu lighting tool/physics engine, Sketcher Model Pro, PhD and kAI/mAI were then transferred under "Balls" Game Labs in February 2015. Wingstar Studios merged the code and assets of Infernal and Sketcher engines and created Wingstar Engine. When "Balls" was acquired by Apple Entertainment, Wingstar laid off 98% of the staff and gave it's Wingstar Engine away.

Staff
After several years of financial struggles, on June 11, 2014, Balls Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for 14 days. "Balls" closed 105 units and studios between January and August 2014 and they were all announced to have a Montréal studio as a successor, as of August 2014. Some staff from the same studios moved to either Dambuster Studios (owned by Deep Silver), OK Labs, or Apple Entertainment, Inc.