Supermassive Video games, developer of iconic horror titles equivalent to Till Daybreak and The Darkish Footage Anthology, has been acquired by Nordisk Video games.
In an announcement instantly from Supermassive, it has been revealed that Nordisk took a 30.7% stake within the UK studio throughout 2021. Now, in 2022, Nordisk has acquired 100% possession of the studio. This makes Supermassive the third wholly owned studio in Nordisk’s portfolio.
Pete Samuels, CEO of Supermassive Video games’, speaks on the acquisition, “It’s been slightly over a 12 months since Nordisk Video games made an preliminary funding in Supermassive Video games and our imaginative and prescient for the long run. Throughout that point, we have now discovered that we share a variety of essential values with Mikkel and his staff, and we imagine these values to be equally essential to our current business companions who we’ll proceed to help.”
Samuels continues, “Having had such a optimistic expertise over the previous 12 months it wasn’t a troublesome determination when Nordisk Video games needed to discover growing their funding. We’ve an thrilling and bold progress technique for Supermassive Video games and Nordisk Video games possession solely enhances that. I’m vastly enthusiastic about the place the safety supplied by this partnership, and continued entry to the experience inside Nordisk Video games, will take us subsequent.”
Final 12 months we introduced our partnership with Nordisk Video games.
In the present day we’re delighted to share Nordisk Video games’ full acquisition of Supermassive Video games. Thrilling instances forward!
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Supermassive Video games was first based in 2008, and has gone on to win a BAFTA award for the PS4 title, Till Daybreak – notably among the finest horror video games so far. The developer has since labored on their very own authentic IP, The Darkish Footage Anthology, which consists of Little Hope, Man of Medan, Home of Ashes, and shortly, The Satan In Me. It additionally very not too long ago launched teen-slasher recreation, The Quarry, which went down an absolute deal with in our assessment.
As for Nordisk Video games, the corporate focuses on making fairness investments in varied European recreation studios. To this point, Nordisk has constructed up a powerful portfolio of builders. This consists of the likes of Star Secure Leisure, MercurySteam, Flashbulb Video games, Nitro Video games, Avalanche Studios Group, Kogama.com, and now, Supermassive Video games.
The precise phrases of Nordisk’s acquisition of Supermassive haven’t but been shared. What do you reckon to this acquisition?