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4A Ukraine, the studio behind Metro: 2033, Metro: Last Light, and (alongside 4A Malta) Metro: Exodus, has a new name and a new game. From this day forth, the studio will be known as Reburn, and its first new project under that title is La Quimera: a dystopian sci-fi FPS set in a "fictional Latin American megalopolis" in the latter half of the 21st century.
Which is all well and good, but it's not the part that gets me. It turns out that, in a reverse Fight Club twist, 4A Ukraine and 4A Malta have actually been entirely separate companies ever since the latter split off from the former all the way back in 2014.
Despite the two studios sharing a name, an engine, and even co-developing the last Metro game, the-studio-now-known-as-Reburn says that the "studios in Ukraine and Malta are separately owned. 4A Malta is an independent company formed by splitting 4A Games and now acquired by Embracer Group. Both studios collaborated on Metro Exodus, but now work on their own projects." 4A Malta—ensconced in the loving arms of the Embracer Group since 2020—will keep the 4A name and trademark, while both studios retain use of the 4A Engine on which Metro was built.
Wtf??? This is news to me. So all this time, or at least since 2014, there have been two 4A studios (one in Ukraine, one in Malta) but somehow they were independent of each other, despite that they both collaborated on Metro. Embracer only acquired 4A Malta and now 4A Ukraine is rebranding and leaving the Metro IP for something else.
But then 4A Games just posted this.
So they still have a studio in Ukraine? But it won't be this one? Lol.
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