It was just over a month ago that Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of both Grand Theft Auto’s Rockstar Games and Borderland’s 2K Games, looked set to acquire UK studio Codemasters. While the deal was yet to be finalised, a fee of $994 million had been agreed and it looked as though it was all
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At the recent Jeffries Interactive Entertainment Virtual Conference, Microsoft Xbox‘s CFO Tim Stuart indicated that future Bethesda Softworks titles will likely arrive on Xbox’s ecosystem of platforms before others or even be better than those other versions available. The statement came a few months after the massive $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent company Zenimax Media
Embracer Group keeps expanding its gaming studios across the world by acquiring twelve new development teams that some of them might sound familiar to you. In the current state of the video game industry, it’s not that easy to find a company on the scale of Embracer Group. A mega-corporation formed up of six major
It seems that no developer is totally out of sight of THQ Nordic’s acquiring eyes. German developer Piranha Bytes, creator of ELEX and the Gothic and Risen series, recently became the latest addition to the Austrian publisher’s long list of subsidiaries. This deal scores THQ Nordic both Piranha’s development studio and IP rights. Piranha CEO
Ahead of next week’s GDC, we have learned about the latest acquisition in the gaming industry. This time, it doesn’t involve THQ Nordic. Instead, Paul Wedgwood, Co-Founder of Dirty Bomb developer Splash Damage, announced that has formed a new firm called Supernova Capital LLP and has acquired Flying Wild Hog, a Polish developer you probably know
Microsoft Studios has acquired Obsidian Entertainment. A video game development studio best known for their work on RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. The announcement was made today at Microsoft’s Inside Xbox X018 press conference which was broadcasted live from Mexico City. In addition to