From the V-Rally trilogy to the first two Test Drive Unlimited via Need for Speed: Porsche 2000, the Lyon studio founded in 1997 under the name Eden Studios has left its mark on French production in the field of racing games, even if the team also tried some adventures in other genres by signing for example the Alone in the Dark of 2008 when it still belonged to the Infogrames / Atari group.
Placed in compulsory liquidation at the beginning of 2013, Eden Games had however relaunched as an independent studio the same year under the direction of its co-founders David Nadal and Jean Yves Geffroy. The studio then got back on track by creating its own Gear.Club Unlimited franchise, which has just been released on Apple Arcade and has exceeded one million copies sold on Switch.
While we would have seen it joining a Nacon or a Microids, the studio was ultimately not invited to participate in the development of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown and today finds a new owner in the person of the Hong Kong company Animoca Brands, which has just acquired the studio from Engine Gaming and Media, a company focused on electronic sports.
With 13 million boxed games sold and 60 million applications downloaded, Eden Games will now be invited to work on new blockchain-based motorsport games that will be part of the ecosystem. play-to-earn from REVV Motorsport. Games dedicated to the cult of the non-fungible token which, as the press release attempts to explain, will compensate for the recent closure of F1 Delta Time whose disappearance has been announced last month due to non-renewal of the F1 licence.
“We are excited to begin the next chapter of Eden Games by joining Animoca Brands. We look forward to producing new experiences that challenge the status quo in the motorsport genre and to venture into new frontiers such as Web3 alongside a leader in this field.“, commented David Nadal, founder and director of the studio.
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