Image: Unknown Worlds Krafton is a sizeable holding company that incorporates a growing range of studios, with the original (and best known) being Bluehole – the studio behind PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds). In fact, despite forming Krafton around three years ago and attracting significant funding, the official website is still bluehole.net. Krafton is utilising some of ...
CD Projekt Group has announced that they have acquired the development studio behind Flame in the Flood, The Molasses Flood. The development studio is formed by video games developers behind hits such as Halo and BioShock. The press releases says that Molasses Flood will be working in close cooperation with CD Projekt Red but they ...
Not The logic of the raccoon, a studio that was just founded by seasoned members of the industry and former employees of EA, Ubisoft and Typhoon Studios, their first commercial move was the acquisition of the IP Journey to the Savage Planet. The announcement was made today, August 11, through a press release. Early on, ...
Sumo Digital, Sackboy: The studio behind games such as A Big Adventure and Crackdown 3 will be acquired by a Chinese company Tencent 1.27 billion US dollars. The latest acquisition of Tencent’s expanding gaming empire will be British studio Sumo Digital. According to Reuters, shareholders of Sheffield-based company Sumo Digital will receive 513 pence in ...
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Phil Spencer confirmed Xbox’s desire to diversify and expand its audience. To achieve this goal, he believes that games need to offer new stories that require new types of studios in new countries. And when asked whether Microsoft could buy a studio in India, Africa or South America ...
It is well known that today the relationship between Nintendo and Microsoft is very good, and it is that the North American company has brought several of its titles to Nintendo Switch. Although Microsoft and the Japanese have changed their policies over the years, they have had a curious history in the past. For that, ...
Stephany Nunneley, GMT, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 But the Mario family laughed at Microsoft. Microsoft has tried to acquire game companies EA, Midway, Square Enix and even Nintendo. This is based on the Blomberg feature on Xbox Origins. It has insights from various people who participated in the original creation of Xbox, and they discussed ...
Sherif Saed, Monday, December 14, 2020, Greenwich Mean Time EA seemed to intervene at the last minute to disrupt Take-Two’s acquisition of Codemasters. Take two Has been following British developers and publishers Program manager for a while. Rockstar’s parent company confirmed its intention to acquire the studio for $994 million in November. The issuer feels ...
And there is a video of the first results. Last week, the efforts of the Half-Life community to interpret the new VR version, Half-Life: Alyx, on a screen that already showed a very early promise. And this week, another Half-Life fandom is approaching the issue in something like another, trying to turn a seminal, and ...
Ranch Stephany Nunneley Wednesday, January 22, 2020, GMT Ranch Funcom has announced that Tencent plans to acquire all shares of Norwegian game developers. Tencent is a shareholder of Riot Games, Epic, Supercell, Ubisoft, Paradox and Frontier, and currently owns nearly 29% of Funcom. Conan's exile developers expressed "enthusiasm" about the company's acquisition intent. Funcas CEO ...
