Krafton buys Neon Giant (The Ascent) and expands into Canada

Krafton intends to become a major player in the world of video games and it is already a bit by editing the franchise PUBG. But it also has other development studios within it, like Striking Distance Studios (The Callisto Protocol) or Unknown Worlds (Subnautica). And he just offered himself neon-giant.

The takeover actually dates from last September, but was only formalized this month during the South Korean publisher’s financial report. neon-giant is Swedish and is only known for The Ascentan action role-playing game cyberpunk first released on the platforms of Microsoft before inviting themselves to playstation. neon-giant is currently developing his next game, a FPS in an open world still unknown.

By the way, Krafton announces thathe will open a new studio in Canada to lead the development of the Project Windlessan ambitious game adapted from Korean novels The Bird That Drinks Tears of Yeongdo Lee turning under Unreal Engine 5and which had impressed recently with a concept cutscene.

The next game edited by Krafton will be as a reminder The Callisto Protocolby one of the designers of dead spacewhich you can pre-order at €49.99 on Amazon pending its release on December 2.

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