Sony Interactive Entertainment makes no secret of it, he wants to expand his empire beyond his console fleet. That’s why it’s bringing more and more of its hits to PC and plans to bolster its mobile presence with a dedicated division within its developer group. PlayStation Studios.
It will expand this year withc the acquisition of Savage Game Studiosa new team based in Berlin and Helsinki since 2020 led by Michail Katkoff (Rovio, Zynga, fun plus, Supercell), Nadjim Adjir (wargaming, Rovio, Gree) and Michael McManus (wargaming, Insomniac, Kabam). This team is already working on an action game AAA in live action for iOS and Android (based on a famous franchise?) and will be the first pillar of PlayStation Studios Mobile Division. Hermen Hulst, Director of PlayStation Studiosshared the good news about the PlayStation-Blog.
Hello PlayStation community!
Today we announced that we have signed our definitive agreement to purchase Savage Game Studios, an incredibly talented creative team with many years of experience developing popular mobile games around the world. . This studio was founded a few years ago, with the vision to fearlessly explore bold new ideas. We share their quest for continuous innovation, as well as the desire to expand our audience and welcome more and more people to the PlayStation universe. This team has thus established itself as an ideal choice to expand the PlayStation Studios family.
I now give the floor to Michail Katkoff, CEO and co-founder of Savage Game Studios, to tell us more about his team:
Thank you, Hermen, and hello to the whole PlayStation community!
Founded in 2020 and led by myself and my co-founders Nadjim Adjir and Michael McManus, Savage Game Studios is the result of our many years of experience in mobile game development, which has brought to life franchises that have enjoyed great success. success internationally. Our guiding vision was to set up a creative space, making experimentation and risk-taking not pitfalls to be avoided, but a philosophy to be adopted. We’ve all worked with big studios, and while we respect the benefits of big resources, we wanted to keep operating on a small scale, to maintain our agility and freedom of choice.
“Then why join PlayStation Studios? you will ask me. If we have entered into this agreement, it is because we believe that the management of PlayStation Studios, in addition to respecting our mode of operation and our vision of success, shares our taste for innovation. Add to that the ability to tap into the incredible catalog of PlayStation franchises, as well as the breadth of support that only PlayStation Studios can offer, and the question isn’t so much “Why join them?” than “Why not join them?” “.
On behalf of everyone at Savage Game Studios, thank you for having us. We can’t wait to tell you about our current projects!
We’ve assured you before when we planned to release some games on PC, and we’ll say it again today: our activities beyond the world of consoles in no way diminish our dedication to the PlayStation community or our passion for creating exceptional single-player narrative experiences. It’s been an amazing year for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games, with releases of major titles like Horizon Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7, MLB The Show 22, plus the long-awaited God of War Ragnarok on November 9th. PlayStation VR2 is also on the horizon, promising a technology gap in presence and immersion that will be reinforced by standout games like Horizon: Call of the Mountain. Additionally, we’re proud of our upcoming PC releases, including Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and Marvel’s Spider-Man, which will give gamers without a PlayStation console a taste of our catalog of great in-house developed games.
Likewise, our efforts to create mobile games will seamlessly complement our existing business, providing audiences with new ways to interact with our content and reach new audiences who may not yet know the PlayStation universe or our games. Savage Game Studios is integrating a new division of PlayStation Studios dedicated to mobile games, which will operate independently of our console development department. This new division will focus on creating innovative mobile experiences based on current and upcoming PlayStation franchises.
I’m counting on you to welcome Savage Game Studios as it should. If you enjoy mobile gaming in addition to console or PC gaming, I hope you will look forward to the experiences they will bring to us soon. I can already tell you that they are working on an as yet undisclosed AAA mobile action game. It’s still too early to reveal more, but I look forward to future announcements.
In the meantime, take care of yourself and your loved ones!
After personal computers, EIS will therefore seriously attack smartphones and tablets, this time with original projects that we look forward to discovering.
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