And those idiots will soon learn there’s no such thing as a “good publisher” because a publisher is, inherently, a worthless middleman and nothing more.
Article is light on the details, except for Campfire Cabal closing. Features a long and obnoxious slideshow of things they’ve bought, which I’ve summarised below. tl:dr; some really eye-wateringly expensive acquisitions, a few really expensive disasters lately, a couple of big successes, and no overall pattern other than ‘buy everything’:
Black Forest (Destroy All Humans! 2)
Pieces Interactive (Titan Quest)
Experiment 101 (BioMutant)
Deep Silver (Homefront, Dead Island, Chronus, Saints Row, Dead Faction)
Coffee Stain (Goat Simulator, Satisfactory)
Bugbear (Wreckfest)
Warhorse (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen)
Milestone (Hot Wheels Unleashed)
Gunfire (Darksiders, Remnant: From The Ashes)
Tarsier (Little Nightmares)
Saber (Evil Dead, Space Marine 2)
4A (Metro)
New World (Insurgency)
Vertigo (Arizona Sunshine)
Zen (Pinball FX)
Purple Lamp (Spongebob)
Flying Wild Hog (Shadow Warrior, Evil West)
Gearbox (Borderlands)
Aspyr (KotOR remake)
Ghost Ship (Deep Rock Galactic)
DigixArt (Road 96)
Slipgate Ironworks (Ghostrunner)
3D Realms (Duke Nukem)
Perfect World (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter)
Crystal Dynamics / Eidos Montreal (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex)
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And those idiots will soon learn there’s no such thing as a “good publisher” because a publisher is, inherently, a worthless middleman and nothing more.
Article is light on the details, except for Campfire Cabal closing. Features a long and obnoxious slideshow of things they’ve bought, which I’ve summarised below. tl:dr; some really eye-wateringly expensive acquisitions, a few really expensive disasters lately, a couple of big successes, and no overall pattern other than ‘buy everything’:
Just the IPs:
Their goals are beyond our comprehension.
Ugh, if anything happens to even half of those, it’ll be a tragedy. Please let them survive!
Yikes. That’s a lot of studios to put on the chopping block.
It’s the list of studios they’ve bought not the ones they’re closing, yet.
Yet. The axeman has yet to chop.
I don’t feel too good about this
It’s almost like having so many studios owned by one entity is a massive risk if that entity stumbles 🙄