NetEase acquires Quantic Dream, creators of Star Wars: Eclipse and Heavy Rain, among other video games

The authors of Detroit: Become Human also aim to grow as a company and ensure their independence.

We already said a few days before the false rumor that Amazon was buying EA: the video game industry is in a crisis. consolidation process where we find occasional buying or selling every few weeks. Thus, we learned today that NetEase has acquired 100% of the capital of Quantic Dream, the French team that wrote Heavy Rain, which celebrated its victory a few weeks ago. 25th anniversary.

“As we enter our next 25 years, we are pleased to announce our merger with NeEase Games, the sole shareholder of Quantic Dream, to continue to thrive and dream big. We will protect our independence We can read in the shared statement about the editorial line, artistic direction and management of the studio of our projects.

According to the letter, Quantic Dream employees are “fully involved” in the operation and will benefit directly financially from it. Additionally, the team remains intact and will continue to grow.

Why should you sell Quantic Dream?

Quantic Dream has been so insistent on the values ​​of creative independence that it will continue to have it under new ownership it seems. Now, why this change of scenery? “To continue our development and global presence, as well as to finance other studios and become an internationally dominant broadcaster, greater investments are needed to continue to strengthen our technology and infrastructure. Deliver next-gen releases that are more impressive than ever beforeto expand our team and develop several projects at the same time”.

Star Wars: Eclipse and Under the Waves are some of Quantic Dream’s upcoming projects.The future of Quantic Dream looks exciting with Star Wars: Eclipse on 3DJuegos, where we made a few wishes, as well as projects from third-party companies. In this sense, Gamescom 2022 brought us Beneath the Waves, a powerful narrative adventure from Parallel Studio that is presented as a love letter to the oceans and invites you to plunge into a beautiful underwater world.

Toni Piedrabuena from the editorial team had the opportunity to visit Quantic Dream a few days ago and left us a full report for its 25th anniversary.