 Co-founders include Ayre, Mike Mika—who had acted as technical director for the original Digital Eclipse—and former "Gamasutra" writer Frank Cifaldi.The new Digital Eclipse laid its focus on video game preservation, and Cifaldi became the studio's "head of restoration", a title which Cifaldi noted was an industry first.At the time, Cifaldi also stated that Digital Eclipse aimed at becoming the video game equivalent of The Criterion Collection.