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PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IPThe move is the company’s “first significant investment in the Japanese video game market”
The move is the company’s “first significant investment in the Japanese video game market”
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks
Former parent company Microsoftannounced that they were shutting downTango Gameworks back in May, alongsideRedfallstudio Arkane Austin and Mighty Doom makers Alpha Dog Games. In an email to staff, Xbox boss Matt Booty called the move a “consolidation of our Bethesda studio teams, so that we can invest more deeply in our portfolio of games and new IP." The next day, Bootysaid that Xboxneeded “smaller games that give us prestige and awards" at a town hall meeting.
Whether Krafton themselves being the ones with the necromancy scrolls is a positive or not, we’ll have to wait and see. But learning Tango has a future feels like a great start to the week. Krafton say they’re working with Xbox and Zenimax to “ensure a smooth transition and maintain continuity at Tango Gameworks, allowing the talented team to continue developing the Hi-Fi Rush IP and explore future projects,” though say there’ll be “no impact on the existing game catalog ofThe Evil Within,The Evil Within 2,Ghostwire: Tokyo, and the original Hi-Fi Rush game.” Presumably, these other IPs haven’t changed hands.
