Boston-based MMO developer Turbine has its sights set on the west coast once again. The company, who recently secured a $40 million investement deal, has just announced the formation of a new game development studio in Redwood City, California. Two of the new studio heads are former Flagship Studios members; it's co-founder Dave Brevik is now the Creative Director at the new Turbine studio while engineering director Jeff Lind led the Ping0 team that created the online service for Flagship.

As we mentioned, this isn't the first time that Turbine has tried to launch a west coast dev studio. The company opened up an office in Santa Monica, California in early 2004 but shut down the operations less than two years later (along with their MMO Asheron's Call 2). There's no specifics on what the new Turbine west coast office will be working on.

[via email press release]