Netease, the developer and writer behind quite a few titles together with Naraka: Bladepoint and Diablo Immortal has introduced the most recent studio to be introduced beneath their umbrella: Quantic Dream. This French developer is thought for creating a variety of narrative-focused titles together with Heavy Rain, Detroit Grow to be: Human, and Past Two Souls.
This marks the primary European firm to be acquired by Netease, as the corporate stretches its monetary fingers the world over to pluck up studios left and proper. With this explicit acquisition, the oldsters at Netease state the studio will “proceed to function independently” because it develops titles throughout all platforms.
The studio will even apparently proceed to assist and publish third-party developed titles which is nice information in the event you appreciated the look of Below the Waves — a sport first revealed at Gamescom earlier this month which is revealed by Quantic Dream and developed by one other French staff at Parallel Studios.
Within the official press launch asserting this acquisition, Quantic Dream founder David Cage writes: “NetEase Video games values our inventive freedom and the drive and fervour of our uniquely numerous staff. We are going to now be capable to speed up the imaginative and prescient we share as a gaggle, of making landmark titles that contact individuals on an emotional degree. We’ve got extremely differentiated video games within the making and I actually consider that the very best is but to return from Quantic Dream.”
That is turning out to be an enormous yr for Quantic Desires. Alongside this information, they’re nonetheless engaged on Star Wars: Eclipse — a story title set within the massively standard sci-fi universe which we’ve but to see any gameplay nor launch date for.
Quantic Desires video games have all the time been a like it or hate it affair. Whereas they’ve taken up an enormous portion of the blockbuster narrative pie within the video games trade, different corporations like Supermassive Video games are reducing their very own slice with The Darkish Photos Anthology, which we spoke with sport director Tom Heaton about lately. Plus, you’ve additionally bought the New Tales from the Borderlands on the best way — a successor to the beloved choice-based RPG from the previous Telltale video games (who themselves are again and bringing out new titles).
What do you suppose will come of this acquisition? Do you suppose it’s a very good transfer by Netease, or is Quantic Desires not an awesome purchase in your thoughts? Tell us!