Dire Wolf Digital announced the formation of its new game development studio in Denver, Colorado. The company was founded by Scott Martins, previously founder of Worlds Apart Productions, and studio head of Sony Online Entertainment Denver.

Mr. Martins is joined by other principals from Worlds Apart/SOE Denver, to form a team of game designers and developers with over a decade of experience, and with credits that include The Lord of the Rings Online Trading Card Game (TCG), the Stargate TCG, Legends of Norrath (the EverQuest-integrated TCG), the Star Wars Galaxies TCG, and the Free Realms TCG.

Dire Wolf will be emphasizing “Anytime, Anyplace” play with its technology, ultimately allowing customers to play from multiple types of clients (web/social, mobile, console), all connecting to a single back-end.

The company is currently producing a trading card game based on an upcoming massively-multiplayer online game, and is in pre-production on additional social and strategy game projects for 2011.