A trio of some of DICE's most experienced staff have jumped ship to go and work with social games outfit ngmoco's new Swedish studio.

The new studio run by former guru Ben Cousins who spearheaded work on EA's free-to-play efforts.

Two senior programmers, Torbjrn Ldre (who worked on 3 and Ubisoft's 2) and Malte Hildigsson (who worked on Battlefield 3, and Mirror's Edge) and senior artist Wille Wintertidh (who worked on Medal of Honor, and Ubisoft's GRAW) have all joined Cousins' new studio.

In a move that surprised many in the Cousins left EA's Easy Studio to open up ngmoco Sweden in June of last year.

Thanks GamesIndustry.biz.

By Ewan Aiton