Nordcurrent acquires Swedish video games studio River End Games, broadening its imaginative and prescient past cellular video games into PC and console
Nordcurrent acquires River End Games; plans for the discharge of a brand-new IP the studio has been operating on continue to be unchanged
Developer and writer Nordcurrent has obtained the Gothenburg-primarily based totally video games studio River End Games because it appears to amplify past its awareness on cellular gaming as a part of its increase plans. River End Games is a 17-robust crew of fantastically skilled sport builders led with the aid of using Jonas Nordling, Anders Hejdenberg and Karl Broström, who’ve labored on AAA video games like Battlefield and Need for Speed, smaller award-prevailing titles like Unravel and feature created numerous unique IPs.
River End Games became created in 2020 with funding and assist from Amplifier Game Invest, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Embracer Group. For River End Games, basically not anything will extrade withinside the every day enterprise and the studio will maintain as usual; the call will continue to be the equal and it’ll function as a separate entity from Nordcurrent’s present offices.
The studio has been operating on an as-but unannounced single-participant sport for PC and consoles with a robust awareness on narrative and world-building, for you to be posted with the aid of using Nordcurrent Labs, the publishing arm of Nordcurrent.
“River End Games’ crew becoming a member of Nordcurrent is a huge step in our method to amplify past cellular gaming, in which we’ve got had a decade of fulfillment with video games like Cooking Fever and tens of thousands and thousands of engaged month-to-month gamers,” the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for Nordcurrent, Victoria Trofimova, said. “There is lots of innovation occurring withinside the PC and console atmosphere and I’m searching ahead to Nordcurrent and River End Games taking an lively function on this evolving market.”
Nordcurrent’s aforementioned decade of fulfillment has visible its cellular titles be downloaded over 500 million instances with the aid of using gamers worldwide. The increasing portfolio of video games with the aid of using Nordcurrent consists of its flagship Cooking Fever in conjunction with Airplane Chefs, Pocket Styler, Murder withinside the Alps and more.
“At River End Games, we’re a small however passionate institution of those who love video games and stay to create them,” the Chief Executive Officer for River End Games, Jonas Nordling, said. “Our aim is simple: to convey world-magnificence studies to game enthusiasts. In Nordcurrent, we’ve located a kindred spirit and lengthy–time period accomplice that stocks our passion. We are very enthusiastic about this new partnership and can’t consider a higher best friend to assist us create worlds and tales that game enthusiasts will do not forget lengthy after they’ve placed the controller away.”