| cusman said: Games that come to mind all had financial backing of Square-Enix Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics) - Taken over from Eidos Interactive Deus Ex - Human Revolution - Taken over by Eidos Montreal (very different team than the Warren Spector originals) Sleeping Dogs - Taken over by United Front Games (converted from unreleased True Crime - Hong Kong) Hitman Absolution - IO Interactive - Taken over from Eidos Interactive It is rare but it happens. PS - A Thief reboot also funded by Square-Enix is on the way out I think as close as February. |
You realise That Eidos was a publisher right? and that Square Enix aquired yhe whole thing developers and all. And was renamed SE Europe so doesn't really count in the spirit of the OP as the IPs never really changed hands the entire company that already owned them did.
Deus Ex is debatabletho it is better than the Invisible war train wreck.
Tomb Raider switched developers from Core design to Crystal Dynamics back in 2006 with Legend still published and owned by Eidos at the time.
Sleeping Dogs was always developed by United Front Games even back before it was a true Crime game (it was Called Black lotus and had a female lead) and the entire almost complete game was sold not including the IP. So doesn't count for the topic.
IO Interactive was the developer of all the Hitman games.
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