Ryuu96 said:
Just saw this, I kept seeing folk say that Certain Affinity are on Perfect Dark but it doesn't look concrete yet, but they might be, it honestly wouldn't be surprising though, Certain Affinity are everywhere, especially when it comes to Xbox and with The Initiative/Crystal Dynamics focused on the singleplayer it would make sense to pull someone like Certain Affinity in for the multiplayer. Side note, I still hope Microsoft acquire them if they're still interested in selling, which has reminded me that Leyou/Tencent had the option of acquiring the rest of Certain Affinity in 2021 as per their contract when they acquired 20% of Certain Affinity, it looks as though they didn't do that so I'm assuming that now allows the possibility of others making an offer and the valuation back then didn't exceed $150m and was only $10m for 20% IIRC. Gives them a studio in Texas which has quite a bit of talent, a nice opportunity for growth, not to mention, Certain Affinity has been a pretty vital support studio to Xbox for years now. |
Certain Affinity are still developing that Transformers MMO so they will be tied to that for a long time when/if it comes out.
We would have heard by now if Tencent bought out the rest of CA for 100% like they did with Splash Damage, I think that ship has sailed for MS though.