{"id":125816,"date":"2022-07-13T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125816"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:26:58","slug":"nordisk-games-acquires-creators-of-the-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125816-nordisk-games-acquires-creators-of-the-quarry","title":{"rendered":"Nordisk Games acquires creators of The Quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nordisk Games has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordiskgames.com\/journal\/nordisk-games-acquires-supermassive-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it has acquired full ownership of Supermassive Games \u2014 the developer known for <em>The Quarry, Little Nightmares<\/em>, and <em>Until Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition follows Nordisk Games acquiring a 30.7% stake in the studio in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a little over a year since Nordisk Games made an initial investment in Supermassive Games and we have found that we share a lot of important values with Mikkel and his team,\u201d said Supermassive Games CEO Pete Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving had such a positive experience over the past year it wasn\u2019t a difficult decision when Nordisk Games wanted to explore increasing their investment,\u201d said Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an exciting and ambitious growth strategy for Supermassive Games and Nordisk Games ownership only enhances that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supermassive games will be the seventh addition to Nordisk Games&#8217; portfolio of developers, which also includes Avalanche Studios Group, Star Stable Entertainment, Nitro Games, Flashbulb Games, MercurySteam, and Kogama.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the year we\u2019ve worked alongside the Supermassive team, it\u2019s clear to us how much talent and potential there is to further develop the kinds of story and narrative-driven games they excel at,\u201d said Nordisk Games CEO Mikkel Weider.<\/p>\n<p>Supermassive also has the highly-anticipated season finale of its Dark Pictures Anthology, called <em>The Devil in Me<\/em>, coming later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Last year we announced our partnership with Nordisk Games.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re delighted to share Nordisk Games&#8217; full acquisition of Supermassive Games. Exciting times ahead!<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B7Vxj71g7d\">https:\/\/t.co\/B7Vxj71g7d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z0hwnIHFzg\">pic.twitter.com\/z0hwnIHFzg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperMGames\/status\/1546767953915518977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Bandai Namco reportedly hacked by ransomware group\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/125810-bandai-namco-reportedly-hacked-by-ransomware-group\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bandai Namco reportedly hacked by ransomware group<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordisk Games has acquired full ownership of the developer studio responsible for The Quarry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5070,2664,26365,6234],"class_list":["post-125816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-acquisition","tag-gaming","tag-nordisk-games","tag-supermassive-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}