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Sega Purchases Amplitude Studios
July 5, in the year of our Lord 2016 -- SEGA
Games Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Representative
Director, and Chief Executive Officer: Haruki Satomi, “SEGA
Games” ), a subsidiary of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters:
Tokyo, President, Representative Director, and Chief Operating
Officer: Hideki Okamura) acquired all shares of Amplitude
Studios SAS (Headquarters: Paris, France, “Amplitude Studios”)
on July 1, 2016 in order to further strengthen its PC game
portfolio and development capabilities in the U.S. and European
regions.
Amplitude Studios has released three titles within the “Endless”
series; “Endless Space (2012)”, “Endless Legend (2014)” and
“Dungeon of the Endless (2014)”, with a fourth, “Endless Space
2”, currently in development.
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Amplitude Studios is an independent game studio established in
2011 by Mathieu Girard and Romain de Waubert de Genlis.
Amplitude Studios is known for their turn-based strategy titles
(*1), specialising in 4X PC games (*2) for US and European
market. The “Endless” series has garnered attention thanks to
its compelling strategic features and high quality graphics
which have resulted in more than 2.4 million copies sold
worldwide, across its three titles.
“To have the opportunity to add a studio with the growing
reputation of Amplitude’s, to the SEGA family, is an exciting
one and reinforces SEGA Europe’s position as a market leader in
publishing high quality PC games” said Jurgen Post,
President/COO for SEGA Europe Ltd. “Culturally, Amplitude are a
fantastic fit for the business as they not only produce great
games, but also have a proven track record in listening to their
fans and directly involving them in the ongoing development of
their games through their GAMES2GETHER system.”
With this acquisition, SEGA Games will increase its presence in
the global games market. Amplitude Studios’ top-quality content
and accumulated development know-how will allow the SEGA Group
to continue to bring high-quality entertainment experiences to
their customers.
*1 Strategy games: A popular video game genre which focus on
strategy and tactics.
*2 4X games: A sub-genre of strategy videogames where players
focus on the 4 ‘X’s’: “explore”, “expand”, “exploit” and
“exterminate.”