Krafton, the corporate answerable for PUBG: Battlegrounds, has apparently acquired The Ascent developer Neon Large, in response to a current earnings doc. The studio is at present laborious at work on its subsequent recreation, which sounds prefer it’ll be fairly completely different to The Ascent.
This information comes through Krafton’s Q3 2022 earnings assertion, through which the Korean firm names Neon Large, alongside The Callisto Protocol developer Placing Distance, as its European studios. No formal announcement concerning this acquisition was made, so this has come as one thing of a shock.
In any case, Neon Large, in response to Krafton, is at present engaged on its latest undertaking, which Krafton describes as an “open-world FPS”. Evidently, Neon Large is aiming to depart its top-down third-person roots behind, though we’ll have to attend and see whether or not the brand new FPS takes place in the identical universe as The Ascent.
Should you’re a finance nerd, you will recognize a number of the different data that is out there within the Krafton earnings presentation. The studio’s revenue is up 17% over final quarter, with PUBG remaining a pleasant little moneyspinner for the corporate. On console, Krafton says Subnautica continued to generate stable income for it in Q3, in order that Unknown Worlds buy final yr might be wanting like a sounder and sounder funding to the Korean big.
Seeking to the long run, Krafton is placing plenty of its eggs within the Callisto Protocol basket. The sport may have a full-scale international advertising marketing campaign to again it up, and Krafton says previews have been “overwhelmingly optimistic”. After all, the corporate makes no point out of the brutal crunch that Placing Distance is seemingly placing its staff by way of to complete the sport. I suppose that is not the type of factor you’d often discover on an earnings report, eh?
We’ll convey you extra on Neon Large and its subsequent tasks as quickly as we get it. Within the meantime, you possibly can seize the studio’s cyberpunk looter-shooter The Ascent on PC (the place it is at present 67% off, at the very least for those who seize it on Steam), Xbox Collection X|S, and PlayStation consoles proper now. It is also out there through Xbox Recreation Go.
