Holy shit, we can one day get another hi-fi rush? Best news of the year
Krafton acquires Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush IP from Xbox
Submitted 3 months ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/krafton-acquires-tango-gameworks-and-hi-fi-rush-ip-from-xbox
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Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is Tango able to be salvaged? I’m guessing the Axe wasn’t an instant shutdown. Great news tbh
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If this deal went through in time to save Tango, as the press release states, this just must have been how long it took for the paperwork to go through.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Probably, the articles I read around the time of Microsoft’s dastardly decisions made it sound like they were already closed down.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No fucking way!!!
Masta_Chief@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Having recently played through Hifi Rush after the studio closed, it reads very differently when you know the characters who go up against Vandalay and Kale, the most corporate of corporations and evil CEO, are killed by a real life evil corporation.
This is great news and even makes playing through the 1st game more enjoyable knowing we’re (hopefully) getting more!
Cris16228@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Sooo can we have Hi-Fi rush 2? The first was freaking amazing and when I read about the ms bullshit I was mad and disappointed. Fuck you Microsoft
Aielman15@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The fact that MS spent an entire decade fumbling the ball, and when it finally got it right and released a game people actually liked, immediately shut down the studio and sold the IP, is still highly amusing to me.
You can’t convince me that it wasn’t an inside job from someone who either secretly works for the competition, or who actively hates MS and wants it to fail.
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I read that by the time MS acquired Tango and Hi-Fi Rush was released, most of the developers and management had already quit, so MS basically only owned the IP anyway. Tango allegedly had nothing in the pipeline, and the few people who were left were working on nothing, and there were no leads to start the process of developing a new game.
Not sure how true it is, but in that case it would make some sense to just shut down the studio, because the alternative would be essentially starting a studio from scratch.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 months ago
MS usually buys competition to erase it so there’s nothing too surprising about this. And no, Bethesda and Blizzard won’t be treated very differently in the long run. That is after every material of everything the studios have ever worked on is fed into datasets to train AI for who knows what.