Day 1 Studios was founded in 2001. Led by FASA Interactive alumni Denny Thorley, Electronic Arts veteran, Mike McDonald and former Microsoft Game Studio pioneers, TJ Wagner and Jon Kimmich. Day 1 quickly staked their claim as the company that would set the bar for Microsoft’s new XBOX live technology. The result, MechAssault™, helped launch the vaunted on-line service in November of 2002 and instantly demonstrated to the world that Xbox Live and console online interactivity was the wave of the future.