Kabam together with Hasbro will develop a mobile game about transformers, Keywords Studios bought an art outsourcing studio Volta Creation, and the creators of “Ghostbusters” went bankrupt.
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Kabam company and the creators of children’s toys Hasbro together will release a game based on the Transformers franchise. The genre of the project is “action with RPG and strategy elements”. They will develop a title in the Canadian branch of Kabam. This is the studio where Fast and Furious: Legacy and Marvel: Contest of Champions were created. The release of the new game will take place in 2017.
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The international company Keywords Studios, which localizes and tests games, has bought an art outsourcing studio Volta Creation. The transaction value is 5.25 million Canadian dollars. The previous owner of the studio was Keywords partner – Frima Studio. As a result of the purchase, art outsourcing is added to the list of services provided by Keywords.
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The creators of the Ghostbusters title, Fireforge Games, have declared bankruptcy. By coincidence, it happened 3 days after the release of the game. Throughout July, the company liquidated assets to cover a debt of $12 million. It is noteworthy that the authors of Ghostbusters owe Tencent $11.3 million of this money. In addition, the studio is suing the Singapore company Min Productions. They claim that Fireforge Games has not fulfilled its obligations to develop the Zeus game. The cherry on the cake: the Ghostbusters title, which was released on the eve of the release of the film of the same name, received a score of 0.7 out of 10 on Metacritics.