DICE Studios' Owen O'Brien to Head Valkyrie

CCP Games has announced that DICE Studios' Owen O'Brien has joined the team and will produce EVE: Valkyrie, the virtual-reality spaceship dogfighting game in development at the company’s Newcastle, UK studio.

O’Brien joins CCP following a long career at the award-winning game development studio DICE in Stockholm, Sweden, owned by publisher Electronic Arts. At DICE, O’Brien led production of the critically acclaimed game Mirror’s Edge, which was heralded for its creativity and groundbreaking take on the first-person action genre.

“I worked with Owen for many years at DICE,” said Sean Decker, senior vice president of production at CCP. “His experience bringing Mirror’s Edge to market will be invaluable as we work to make virtual reality an actual reality for gamers worldwide.”

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