SEGA acquires Amplitude Studios

[NoirSuede]

http://www.videogamer.com/pc/endless...e_studios.html
 
 SEGA Europe has announced the acquisition of Amplitude Studios, the French game developer of the Endless series, a 4X strategy franchise including Endless Legend, Endless Space and Dungeon of the Endless.
 
 SEGA will now publish Endless Space 2 which is due to go into Early Access later this year. It will also take over publishing responsibilities for the back catalogue of Endless games and any future content.
 
 "To have the opportunity to add a studio with the growing reputation of Amplitude's, to the SEGA family, is an exciting one and reinforces SEGA Europe's position as a market leader in publishing high quality PC games," said Jurgen Post, President and COO for SEGA Europe.
 
 "Joining the SEGA family represents the culmination of five years of hard work from myself and Romain and everyone here at Amplitude Studios," said Mathieu Girard, co-founder of Amplitude Studios.
 
 "For the Endless series to be alongside PC franchises with such heritage as Total War and Dawn of War in the SEGA Europe stable puts our games where we feel they deserve to be. We look forward to leveraging SEGA Europe's expertise in the PC market to take the Endless series to the next level."

[Sharky]

SEGA are arguably the top strategy publisher in the world at this point. They should try to aquire Paradox for Cities Skyline, Stellaris and Europa and become unstoppable.

[Barry the Nomad]

I am very pleased with SEGA Europe building a RTS empire. I am not big into the genre, but I have a lot of respect for it and I like how SEGA is slowly forming a monopoly on the genre, and allowing the studios to develop games that they would otherwise be unable to without SEGA (like Alien: Isolation).

I am, however, worried that SEGA Europe might use this too heavily as their identity moving forward. SEGA of America has it right, with several localized Japanese titles, the PC stuff from SEGA Europe, and cutting off SEGA of America from farming out terrible home console games (Rise of Lyric, Marvel, Golden Compass). SEGA Europe needs to recognize that this isn't the only thing that SEGA can be in that region.

[George]

Now can we get Psyonix to build a decent, well supported console multiplayer game?

[NoirSuede]

SEGA are arguably the top strategy publisher in the world at this point. They should try to acquire Paradox for Cities Skyline, Stellaris and Europa and become unstoppable.

I don't know, Rock Paper Shotgun seems to hate SEGA....

[George]

Yet they seem to play their games anyway.

[crackdude]

Rock Paper Shotgun sucks

[Tad]

Indeed they do. As someone who plays a lot of adventure game, I've noticed quite a few errors in their reviews and some really crude writing. They seem to pass the job to someone who clearly dislikes the genre.

It's good to see SEGA building though.

[Mariano]

Funny, even the SEGA-Sammy official page made a press release about this:




http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20160705_amplitude%20studios_e.pdf

[NoirSuede]

W

Funny, even the SEGA-Sammy official page made a press release about this:




http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20160705_amplitude%20studios_e.pd

That's great then

[Phantasos]

Who?