computer and video games founded 2005 headquarters sofia bulgaria key people atanas atanasov ceo products guns and robots earthrise website http www.mastheadstudios.com masthead studios was founded in 2005 in bulgaria and is an eastern european video game developing studio specializing in massively multiplayer online role playing games . contents 1 fallout mmo 2 earthrise 3 guns and robots 4 references 5 external links fallout mmo edit it was announced in april 2009 that interplay were teaming up with masthead studios to complete work on project v13 a fallout universe based mmorpg . 1 2 in september of the same year bethesda began legal action against interplay about the project because interplay had sought to recruit masthead studios to develop the mmo eleven days after bethesda had revoked the fallout license . 3 the result was that all rights granted to interplay to develop a fallout online game were returned to bethesda . 4 earthrise edit masthead studios first independent project earthrise was released in february 2011 . 5 6 earthrise and the earthrise engine developed by the studio for its own game were in development for six years . at the beginning of 2012 the ownership and management of the game itself was transferred to silent future a germany based company for further development . 7 guns and robots edit masthead studios is developing an online shooter game called guns and robots featuring robot customization . 8 the game is offered in free to play format . the graphics and atmosphere of the game are produced with the unity game engine . 9 the development started with an initial limited closed beta test 10 followed by an open beta released in january 2013 . 11 12 13 after the success of the open beta phase guns and robots has been approved on steam greenlight 14 and is now available on steam for purchase . references edit fahey mike . interplay and masthead team for potential fallout mmo . kotaku . retrieved 4 march 2009 . thorsen tor 2009 04 03 . earthrise studio arming fallout mmorpg . gamespot . retrieved 2009 04 10 . williams bryn 14 september 2009 . fallout mmo drama bethesda sues interplay . gamespy . parrish kevin 9 january 2012 . fallout mmo rights officially restored to bethesda . tom s hardware . ign staff . masthead studios launches mmorpg earthrise . retrieved 4 february 2011 . masthead studios announces delay for upcoming mmorpg earthrise . masthead studios . 15 april 2010 . silentfuture takes over earthrise . silentfuture . 10 may 2012 . rossignol jim 3 october 2012 . apt guns & robots will feature customisable gunfighters guns and robots . rock paper shotgun . ritter tobias 17 july 2012 . guns and robots earthrise entwickler masthead studios kungdigt neuen online shooter an in german . younger paul 23 november 2012 . robot wars commence as guns and robots enters closed beta . guns and robots announced . gamers hell . archived from the original on 2012 07 17 . hooson naren 28 january 2012 . guns and robots announces open beta . vg247 . farokhmanesh megan 27 january 2013 . free online shooter guns and robots enters open beta . polygon . nunneley stephany 4 april 2014 . guns and robots from masthead studios has been approved on steam greenlight . vg247 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title masthead studios & oldid 704041424 categories video game development companiesvideo game companies of bulgariacompanies based in sofiaentertainment companies established in 2005hidden categories cs1 german language sources de navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 february 2016 at 04 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view