We’ve detailed the THQ auction quite a bit already, with several different franchises going to multiple publishers. One of those publishers, Sega, has issued their response to the acquisition of THQ Canada, which owns Relic Entertainment (Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, Company of Heroes).
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SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
Warhammer 41k: Space Marine 2 coming next?
Will be interesting to see how other companies approach these franchises.
their competent, but I don't know how Sega fits in with this?
So Sega can buy a studio but can't publish Bayonetta 2?
Well this should be interesting.