Peter "Durante" Thoman has announced he's opening a new studio dedicated to PC ports, PH3 Games.
Durante - who has already lent his expertise to PC ports of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel and Rez Infinite - is well-known in the PC modding circuit, and arguably best known for his PC Dark Souls patch. According to a post on Metacouncil forum, the venture's been around since last September, but he's only recently "got the final bureaucratic IDs required to consider it fully complete". It's called PH3 Games so that it's "somewhat pronounceable" in both English and German, and all three co-founders have a PhD. That said, Durante acknowledged the team was "still considering several alternatives".
Specialising "in the engineering aspects of game development", PH3 Games will provide "renowned high-quality ports, as well as consulting related to performance aspects: optimization, parallelization, refactoring and tuning".