Sony announced acquisition of Housemarque

Sony introduced that it had acquired developer Housemarque. That is the developer behind this 12 months’s PS5 unique Returnal, a recreation that blew PlayStation followers away with its clean gameplay and unimaginable use of the PS5’s unique options.

In a submit on Twitter and weblog submit on the PlayStation Weblog, the corporate made it clear that they’d been enthusiastic about buying the developer for a while. Based on a current interview with Famitsu, this acquisition really began in 2020, however needed to be delayed whereas work continued on Returnal.

Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst praised Housemarque for producing some iconic PlayStation video games corresponding to Returnal, Tremendous Stardust HD, and plenty of others for the household of platforms over time.

With this acquisition, Housemarque has a safe monetary future, that means that the video games to come back from the corporate will already be totally backed by Sony. This may enable builders the time they should make the video games they need, and push them to stay as much as the imaginative and prescient they’ve for them.

Along with this Housemarque acquisition, Sony by chance additionally introduced that it has acquired Bluepoint Video games. A picture on the Japanese PlayStation account referenced the studio and even had a separate picture noting Bluepoint Video games.

Bluepoint Video games is the developer behind many PlayStation exclusives corresponding to Shadow of the Colossus remake, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Assortment, Gravity Rush Remastered, and Flower. The corporate has additionally labored on many different titles up to now, and has a pedigree for producing high quality titles.

Each of those acquisitions see Sony buying companions that it’s labored with up to now. Which means the corporate is clearly conscious of the worth in these studios, and desires to nurture that expertise to get probably the most out of them sooner or later, the identical means it did with Sucker Punch and Ghost of Tsushima.

Little question there can be information of the PlayStation exclusives these studios are engaged on sooner or later. For now although, each studios are merely excited to be a part of the PlayStation Studios label and have the religion positioned in them to create titles which can be before everything for PlayStation followers.