Builders of The Quarry and The Darkish Footage Anthology collection Supermassive Video games have been totally acquired by Danish movie manufacturing firm Nordisk Movie. UK studio Supermassive introduced the buy-out at this time on Twitter, however didn’t share how a lot the acquisition will value.
The Copenhagen-based Nordisk is the world’s oldest constantly lively film manufacturing firm, based in 1906. Their Nordisk Video games division has minority and majority stakes in six different improvement studios.
Supermassive is the third developer that Nordisk has acquired outright. The Danish firm paid $103 million in 2018 for Simply Trigger builders Avalanche, however left artistic management as much as the Swedish studio. Nordisk had already taken a 30.7% stake in Supermassive in March final 12 months, and each corporations credited the transfer for the total buyout.
”Within the 12 months we’ve labored alongside Pete and Joe and the entire Supermassive group, it’s been clear to us the quantity of expertise, in addition to how a lot potential there may be to additional develop the sorts of story and narrative-driven video games they excel at,” Mikkel Weider, CEO of Nordisk Video games, stated.
Horror video games that border on interactive films is what Supermassive has been doing finest since 2015’s Sony-exclusive Till Daybreak. Alice Bee thought their most up-to-date stab at teen-angst jeepers creepers was enjoyable, however not very scary, in her The Quarry evaluation. “Maybe the higher achievement is that I had a number of deaths that I simply let experience, as a result of they had been so good,” she stated, “so implausible and needlessly graphic in that retro slasher approach that leans near being really humorous.”