Another One In The Bag For Sega
Today we learned Endless Legend developer, Amplitude Studios, has now been officially acquired by Sonic The Hedgehog publisher, SEGA. According to a July 5th press release:
“SEGA Games Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Representative Director, and Chief Executive Officer: Haruki Satomi, “SEGA Games” ), a subsidiary of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Representative Director, and Chief Operating Officer: Hideki Okamura) acquired all shares of Amplitude Studios SAS (Headquarters: Paris, France, “Amplitude Studios”) on July 1, 2016 in order to further strengthen its PC game portfolio and development capabilities in the U.S. and European regions.”
Amplitude, has a pretty good track record with the development of three titles in the Endless franchise: Endless Space, Endless Legend and Dungeon of the Endless. They commented with the following:
“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/COO for SEGA Europe Ltd. “Culturally, Amplitude are a fantastic fit for the business as they not only produce great games, but also have a proven track record in listening to their fans and directly involving them in the ongoing development of their games through their GAMES2GETHER system.”
Both sides look to gain with this development, the french based studio hoping to ” focus on making games” instead of dealing with “the pressure on sales and marketing”, while SEGA looks to enlarge its roster of studios, which includes such prolific developers as Total War creators, Creative Assembly, Football Manager producer, Sports Interactive and Company of Heroes developer, Relic Entertainment.