THQ Nordic purchase the studio making Biomutant

The cutesy Biomutant raised a couple of eyebrows after its announcement throughout Gamescom in August, sufficient that THQ Nordic have gone forward and purchased the studio making it. THQ Nordic had been already publishing Biomutant, and now they personal each the post-apocalyptic open-world action-RPG and builders Experiment 101 too.

THQ Nordic introduced on Friday, plain and easy, that that they had “acquired 100% of the shares from Experiment 101 AB, as well as the intellectual property of Biomutant”. Alrighty then.

Due to launch a while in 2018, Biomutant is an action-RPG starring a cute critter in a post-apocalyptic world who good points powers by way of bodily mutations – claws and tails and psychic powers and bits. That’s what tends to occur whenever you lick barrels of radioactive waste. And it has kung fu and crafting and jetpacks and wings and… it’s doing so much. It may be attention-grabbing. THQ Nordic appear to suppose so.

See it for your self in 25 minutes of motion from the Ian Games Network in September:

A small reminder: THQ Nordic will not be THQ. That American writer is lifeless and buried, shut down in 2012, then Nordic Games later purchased numerous THQ’s garments and furnishings in the home clearance sale – together with the rights to their identify. Nordic Games have additionally picked up bits from JoWooD Entertainment, Atari, and others through the years. But since 2016 they’ve referred to as themselves THQ Nordic. Get it? Got it? Good.