Reynolds and Train rebuilt their studio in Baltimore, and they signed up Nexon M, a mobile-focused division of Tokyo-based Nexon, as a publisher.
In re-acquiring the Big Huge Games brand, Reynolds and Train tapped into the nostalgia for those strategy games of yore. Big Huge Games made Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, for 38 Studios. In 2014, they created a startup studio and bought their former name, Big Huge Games - formerly a PC game studio that made real-time strategy games Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends - after the state of Rhode Island auctioned it off last fall in the wake of the collapse of Curt Schilling’s company, 38 Studios. They most recently worked in game design roles at the Baltimore-based Zynga East studio, until the publisher shut it down in 2013.
Reynolds and Train veered off the track of history games for a time.
