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Ngmoco beefs up Stockholm studio hiring three from DICE

GM Ben Cousins goes back to source

Ngmoco beefs up Stockholm studio hiring three from DICE
Former DICE employee and EA Easy head Ben Cousins has added some new staff members to ngmoco's Stockholm studio.

Malte Hildingsson, Wille Wintertidh and Torbjorn Lædre, all join the ranks, as announced by Cousins via Twitter.

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Hildingsson brings experience from Battlefield 3, Need For Speed: The Run, BulletStorm and Mirror's Edge, and takes the position of senior programmer, with Wintertidh (also of Mirror's Edge) taking the role of senior artist.

Lædre also joins as senior programmer, having worked on Battlefield 3, Far Cry 2 and Battlefield 2.

These three will join Cousins, alongside previous hires from Crytek, including its former director Senta Jakobsen and staff Tony Davis and Vesselin Efremov.

The studio's first game is yet to be announced, but will be exclusive to ngmoco's Mobage social mobile platform. 

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