Sony Interactive Entertainment heeft de Berlijnse studio Savage Game Studios gekocht om te laten opereren onder hun nieuwe PlayStation Studios Mobile Division.
Deze divisie opereert onafhankelijk van de console-divisie en legt de focus op innovatieve ervaringen die je onderweg kunt beleven. De games die onder de mobiele divisie worden uitgebracht zijn zowel geheel nieuwe, als bekende PlayStation franchises.
Savage Game Studios werd in juni 2020 opgericht door een team dat al ervaring heeft met de ontwikkeling van mobiele games. Momenteel werken ze aan een nog onaangekondigde "AAA mobile live service action game".
Onderstaand laat Savage Game Studios CEO en mede-oprichter Michail Katkoff zich uit over de acquisitie:
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"Thanks, Hermen, and hello everyone in the PlayStation community!
Established in 2020 and led by myself and fellow co-founders Nadjim Adjir and Michael McManus, Savage Game Studios was born of our many years of mobile game development experience spanning a number of massively successful global intellectual property. Our guiding vision was a creative space where experimentation and taking risks weren’t warily avoided, but rather eagerly embraced. We’ve all worked at big studios and while we respect the advantages of ample resources, we wanted to stay small and nimble so we could call our own shots.
“So why then,” you may be thinking to yourself, “would you join PlayStation Studios?” We made this deal because we believe that PlayStation Studios’ leadership respects our vision for how we can best operate and succeed, and because they too are not afraid to take chances. All of that, plus the ability to potentially tap into PlayStation’s amazing catalog of intellectual property and the fact that we will benefit from the kind of support that only they can provide… The harder question to answer would be “why not?”
On behalf of everybody at Savage Game Studios, thank you for having us. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on!"
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