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Why private equity acquisitions like the one that just claimed BioWare are so dreaded BioWare is just the latest casualty in a long history of private equity carnage. The LGBTQ-inclusive developer of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, which hadn't managed to transmute development mayhem into sales success and whose games aren't ideal environments for loot boxes, did not seem likely to be admired by its new owners, Saudi Arabia and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. A report using S&P data found that in 2024, private equity-backed companies accounted for more than 10% of all corporate bankruptcies and over 50% of bankruptcies with over $500 million in liabilities—but "despite their role in precipitating bankruptcies, private equity firms often emerge financially unscathed." "There have certainly been instances of this—the 2017 bankruptcy of Toys 'R' Us is top of mind for me," Venema said. And Dell, Venema said, went from a $25 billion buyout in 2013 to being valued today at nearly $100 billion after going public again in 2018.
Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it's laying them off, too An undisclosed number of employees have been let go from the studio behind survival game Scum. The closure of BioWare and layoff of roughly 400 people at Electronic Arts is being rightly excoriated as an example of the corrosive effects of capital on pretty much everything good. So, to recap: - Splash Damage gets bought up by private equity - Splash Damage lays off employees - Splash Damage, backed by private equity, acquires Gamepires - Gamepires lays off employees The number of people put out of work wasn't revealed, but in response to our inquiry Splash Damage issued the following statement: "Gamepires is part of Splash Damage Group and has reduced the size of its team in response to challenging market conditions and to support the studio’s long-term sustainability. "Development of SCUM will continue, and we’ll keep working with our colleagues at Gamepires to support updates and new content." 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80.
Студия Undead Labs после ухода из XBOX могла стать «дочкой» Splash Damage, утверждают источники The Game Business. Их информацию также подтверждают источники Kotaku. State of Decay 3 Предполагается, что Splash Damage хотела совершить покупку при поддержке инвестиционной фирмы Emona Capital, но кроме этого факта о несостоявшейся сделке ничего неизвестно. Ни стоимость Undead Labs, ни выдвинутые условия в СМИ не утекли.
"There is no easy answer anymore, there's no kind of playbook" – Secret Mode is hedging its bets with two very different pillars The UK publisher is embracing both high-budget, IP-led games like Star Wars: Galactic Racer and low-budget experimental indies It's all smiles over at Secret Mode right now. Since breaking free from Sumo Digital (and its parent Tencent) last year, the newly independent UK publisher has been going great guns. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz at Gamescom, chief publishing officer James Schall says Secret Mode has seen "phenomenal growth" over the past 18 months. Secret Mode has taken on publishing duties for Fancy Games' Escape the Backrooms, which was initially released in Early Access in 2022, as well as Anegar Games' Chained Together, which came out in 2024.
Secret Mode busted out of the Tencent-owned Sumo Group last year. Ed Blincoe and James Schall elaborate on the funding help that got the publisher Star Wars: Galactic Racer, and why they're betting big on niche titles Back in February 2025, the UK-based Sumo Group – which has been owned by Tencent since 2021 – announced it would be focusing "exclusively on development services for partners." In other words, it would be doubling down on things like co-development, and would no longer be making its own games (the group's previous titles include Crackdown 3 and Sackboy: A Big Adventure). Naturally, when this news was delivered internally in late 2024, staff at the Sumo-owned indie publisher Secret Mode turned to look at each other with raised eyebrows and concerned expressions. "We were in this tricky situation where we didn't fit that, and we didn't really fit what Tencent were looking to do in the West either at that time," recalls Secret Mode CEO Ed Blincoe.