After years of sporting rising beards and sporting plaid shirts as an unbiased studio, Hard Reset builders and Shadow Warrior rebooters Flying Wild Hog have gotten a shave, began sporting ties, and sided with The Suits. The Polish studio have been purchased by Supernova Capital, an funding agency based by a variety of Splash Damage veterans together with former CEO Paul Wedgwood. They all say that is excellent news for Flying Wild Hog, because the gang will get to give attention to making games whereas The Suits present monetary safety, sit in smoky rooms steepling their fingers, and cackle ominously after they don’t realise convention calls are nonetheless going.
Supernova Capital exploded into existence in 2018, not lengthy after Wedgewood sold Splash Damage to Leyou, a Chinese firm whose diversified and peculiar enterprise pursuits embrace video games (in addition they own most of Warframe studio Digital Extremes), poultry, and poultry merchandise. Fellow damaging splashes Mark Morris, Ross Farrow, Richard Jolly, Griff Jenkins, and Arnout van Meer co-founded it too.
Flying Wild Hog is Supernova’s first identified pick-up, so it’s exhausting to get a way of what this may imply for the studio. They appear optimistic, although for all we all know elite businessmen had been holding a razor-sharp enterprise card to the Hogs’ fingers and threatening a dire paper reduce.
“With Supernova, it feels like we have reconnected with our older, more experienced siblings,” Flying Wild Hog CEO Michał Szustak stated in Thursday’s announcement. “They share the same values as us – passion for players, employee happiness, and boundary-pushing creativity. The last 10 years of Hogs’ history wasn’t always easy but I feel that with Supernova, we can finally focus on the thing we love the most: making awesome games. New owners or not, the Flying Wild Hog you know won’t be changing its culture, and we’ve got some exciting new game announcements to share with you soon!”
Not simply announcement however bulletins, plural? You huge tease.
In brief, enterprise.
