Sony aquires "Insomniac Games"

[Replicant]

Barkley said:

JRPGfan said:

Its not just Microsoft out there swallowing up game studios.... Epic is doing it, Stadia is doing it... even Amazon did a few?
At some point Sony must be like... "the hell! if everyone takes everything, we ll get no 2nd party deals!"

Who did Stadia or Amazon buy?

Google
Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator)
Slide (SuperPoke)
Niantic (Pokémon Go) – Spun off in 2015
In talks to acquire more game studios (link)

Amazon
Double Helix Games (Killer Instinct)
Reflexive Entertainment (Lucky's Escape)

Epic
Psyonix (Rocket League)
Cloudgine (Crackdown 3)
Chair Entertainment (Shadow Complex)
People Can Fly (Gears of War: Judgment, Bulletstorm) – Sold in 2015

However besides Microsoft, THQ Nordic (and to a lesser degree Bigben) has been the one on a crazy buying spree these past few years.

THQ Nordic
Black Forest Games (Destroy All Humans!)
Bugbear Entertainment (FlatOut)
Dambuster Studios (Dead Island 2)
Deep Silver (publisher of Saints Row, Dead Island, etc.)
Experiment 101 (Biomutant)
Grimlore Games (SpellForce 3)
Gunfire Games (Darksiders 3)
Milestone (MotoGP, MXGP, Ride, Gravel)
Pieces Interactive (Magicka 2)
Piranha Bytes (Gothic, Risen, ELEX)
Rainbow Studios (MX vs. ATV)
Volition (Saints Row)
Warhorse Studios (Kingdom Come: Deliverance)
Together with a huge bunch of IP including Alone in the Dark, Carmageddon, Kingdoms of Amalur, and TimeSplitters (link)

Bigben Interactive
Cyanide (Styx, Call of Cthulhu, Werewolf)
Kylotonn (WRC 8, V-Rally 4)
Spiders (The Technomancer, Greedfall)

Last edited by Replicant - on 21 August 2019