After several years of developing their projects on their own, 38 Studios, the game development studio founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, finally has a publisher for its first game. Today on the first day of GDC 2010 it was announced that Electronic Arts has signed on to publish the game known at the moment only as "Project Mercury". It's the open world single player fantasy RPG that's being developed by Big Huge Games, the development company that 38 Studios bought from THQ in 2009.

38 Studios was first formed several years ago with the idea of launching a fantasy MMO under the code name Copernicus. The game that Big Huge Games is developing is not that MMO but is apparently set in that same universe with its background being developed by author R. A. Salvatore and with art design by comic book artist Todd McFarlane. Little info on the game has been revealed and EA's announcement today did not reveal a release date for "Project Mercury" (not the game's real title by the way).