When Colantonio was about 18 years old, at the verge of having to perform
mandatory military service that France had at the time, he participated in a contest held by
Electronic Arts (EA) on knowledge about the
Ultima series, which he had been a fan of. He was unaware that the contest was meant for EA to find qualified applicants for a new studio they were setting up in France, and through the contest, Colantonio was hired into EA, helping with establishing their customer support services in France. In June 2017, he departed Arkane, though he stayed with the Lyon branch of Arkane to help with transition to new management, while
Harvey Smith oversaw the Austin studio. Colantonio stated that he wanted to spend more time with his son and re-evaluate his goals for the future. In a 2020 interview, he said that part of his reason for leaving was "creative anxiety" around delivering a
triple A quality game where it felt like more like making a product instead, as well as wanting to take a break to focus on other matters.
WolfEye Studios Colantonio and Julien Roby, a former producer at Arkane, announced in November 2019 they had earlier formed a new studio,
WolfEye Studios, a twenty-person studio working distributively. They announced their first game,
Weird West, at
The Game Awards 2019, to be published by
Devolver Digital.
Weird West, which released on 31 March 2022, is a top-down
action role-playing game with elements of the
immersive sim genre in which the player takes the role of heroes in the
American frontier which encounters supernatural elements, with randomized elements through each play through. Colantonio stated in March 2025 that WolfEye was working on a new, unnamed first person immersive sim title. == Music ==