Sony Music Entertainment establishes Unties game publishing label

posted on 10.17.17 at 03:44 AM EDT by Sal Romano (@salromano)

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Starting lineup: Tiny Metal, Last Standard, Merkava Avalanche, and Deemo Reborn.

 

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Sony Music Entertainment has announced the establishment of a new game publishing label called Unties. 

Here’s an overview of the label, via Sony Music Entertainment:

With the growth of game development environments, high quality game development has become possible even in small scale environments, and the evolution of digital publishing has made it easier to distribute developed titles to users worldwide. On the other hand, with a mixed bag of titles overflowing the market, there are also situations where interesting titles are buried without being noticed.

At Unties, we dig up the masterpieces buried in those situations, and support them so that more users notice and pick them up. We spread information about excellent games and sell titles for multiple platforms.

The name “Unties” comes from the thought “to unleash the excellent talents of unique game creators all over the world” and “setting creators free from the various shackles of game publishing, named from the intention of realizing publishing that is freedom of production without restraints.”

Unties has announced four titles it plans to publish:

Tiny Metal

• Platforms: PlayStation 4, Switch, PC
• Developer: Area35
• Genre: Tactics Simulation
• Players: 1 (online functionality also included)
• Release Date: November 21, 2017
• Links: Official Website, Steam Greenlight

Read more here.

 

Last Standard

• Platforms: PC, Others TBA
• Developer: I From Japan
• Genre: 3D Action
• Players: 1 (online battle support also planned)
• Release Date: TBA
• Links: Official Website, Steam Greenlight

 

Merkava Avalanche

• Platforms: PC, Others TBA
• Developer: WinterCrownWorks
• Genre: Suvival Robot Action
• Players: 1
• Release Date: TBA
• Links: Official Website, Steam Greenlight

 

Deemo Reborn

• Platforms: PlayStation 4 (with PlayStation VR support)
• Developer: Rayark
• Genre: Rhythm Action
• Supported Languages: Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Protuguese, Russian
• Players: 1
• Release Date: TBA

Read more here.

 

Visit the Unties official website here.

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It's not new. SME has published games before; they were responsible for the first 2 Tenchu games. I think the point is to use this brand as a means for Sony to just be publisher not tied to PlayStation.  The brand seems Japanese indie focused.

A Sony company publishing games on all platforms

#4ThePlayers

Sony Music Entertainment published numerous games on the PS1, so this isn't a new venture for them. Their Aniplex production company is currently dominating the mobile space with a few of their mobile games. Being under SME allows them to develop and publish titles with a lot more creative freedom. Some of their mobile titles would never get the greenlight, because they would be seen as niche by SIE standards.

Wonderful. More shitty 'indie' crap.

If there's a lot of success (not likely with this starting lineup), I wonder if Sony will be willing to put more substantial content on the Switch. At long last, the healing can begin.

more than you know about sarcasm apparently

how terribly rude

No.

That's why I didnt bother linking any of them. They could be good though.

Have you played the geames? They're not even out yet lol.