Paradox Interactive introduced right now that they’ve acquired Triumph Studios, the Netherlands-based builders of the Age of Wonders and Overlord sequence.
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“Triumph Studios is a developer of our own heart. They are world-leading within their niche and have built a large and dedicated community over the years, counting quite a few Paradox employees among their hardcore fans. We have great faith in Lennart, Arno and the Triumph team, and our main focus now is to ensure that they can continue to create their magic under new ownership,” Fredrik Wester, CEO at Paradox Interactive, says.
In a press release on their own website, Triumph goes into slightly extra element on why they accepted this acquisition.
“The games market is constantly evolving and we drew the conclusion that expanding our publishing efforts for the limited number of games we release would be inefficient. We were super excited when Paradox proposed joining their family. As one of the world’s premier publishers – and developers – of strategy games, they really understand the type of games we make. They have specialized, highly skilled personnel to complement our activities: from marketing and PR, to QA, localization and of course development itself. Many of us are huge fans of Paradox games, so we’re very much looking forward to sharing knowledge with their renowned Grand Strategy developers.”
According to Paradox, all workers will stay at Triumph and all ongoing initiatives will stay, er, ongoing. These will, in fact, be revealed by Paradox, and should very nicely embody Age of Wonders four. However, it is not going to embody the following recreation within the well-regarded Overlord sequence for the reason that rights to these video games stay with Codemasters. This was confirmed by Paradox’s Shams Jorjani over Twitter
Many asking about Overlord. sadly not inclu. Someone urged Overlord Grand Strategy recreation. Mordor Universalis actully sounds nice
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) June 30, 2017
There will probably be a livestream right now at 16:00 CEST/15:00 BST/07:00 PT/10:00 ET/Saturday 00:00 AET with Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester and Triumph CEO Lennart Sas on Paradox’s Twitch channel, the place they are going to be going into extra element in regards to the acquisition and, hopefully, some teases for his or her future video games.
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