The studio installed in Paris and Montreal had been founded in 1997 by its current manager, David Cage, and among others developed the titles “Heavy Rain”, “Beyond: Two Souls”.
Le Monde with AFP
Netease Games, one of the Chinese video game giants, acquired for an amount not unveiled the entire independent French studio Quantic Dream, developer of the future Star Wars Eclipse adventure game, announced the group on Wednesday 31 In a press release.
The competitor of Tencent thus puts a first foot in Europe, while the studio in which he had already invested in 2019 “will continue to operate independently,” he said. “In order to continue our development (…), but also to finance other studios and become an international publisher, greater investments are necessary,” said Quantic Dream on its site .
Studio Quantic Dream, based in Paris and Montreal, had been founded in 1997 by its current manager, David Cage, and developed among others the Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls or Detroit: Become Human, which offers to take charge of the destiny of three robots in a city populated by Androids.
Quantic Dream is currently working with Lucasfilm Games to a new video game adaptation of the Star Wars universe, classified among the titles “AAA”, a category that brings together big budget games.
positive signal for the Chinese video game market
The action of the Chinese giant Netease Games was shaken this summer after the postponement for a month of the release in China of its flagship Diablo Immortal, co-developed with the American Activision Blizzard.
At the beginning of June, China had granted new licenses to sixty video games; This is the second wave of authorizations of the year on the first world market.
The announcement has been perceived as a positive signal for the Chinese video game market, targeted in recent years by the country’s authorities, which had weighed on the profitability of many companies in the sector, such as the Géant Tencent, issue A World Cup.
In the international market, the time is for consolidation: giant acquisitions are done, as the buyout at the start of the year of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for 68.7 billion dollars, or that of Bungie by Sony For $ 3.6 billion.