Elden Ring parent company buys studio behind some of the best JRPGs of recent years
Feb. 8, 2024Acquire, developer of Octopath Traveller, has been acquired
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FromSoftwareparent company Kadokawa has purchased the studio behind acclaimed JRPG series Octopath Traveller.
In a statement during its quarterly earnings report (viaVGC), Kadokawa, which also owns theElden Ringdeveloper, said that it had purchased the studio, Acquire Corp, “to strengthen the ability to create IP in games as part of our game business strategy.”
Kadokawa says that it hopes to “generate synergies” with existing game studios, which will strengthen development efforts and “enhance out lineup of console games.” That could mean that Acquire will assist the company’s other studios, as is common practice under companies like PlayStation, for instance, but it certainly also seems that Kadokawa has hopes for Acquire to continue creating its own games. It’s not clear whether that would mean more Octopath Traveller titles - those have been published bySquare Enix, but FromSoftware games are also regularly published externally - Elden Ring, for instance, was published byBandai Namco.
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