Octopath Traveler Developer Acquired by Kadokawa

Kadokawa Company has introduced the acquisition of Octopath Traveler developer ACQUIRE from GungHo On-line Leisure. Purchase can be the studio behind Tenchu and Manner of the Samurai, that are owned by Kadokawa’s FromSoftware and Spike Chunsoft, respectively.

Octopath Traveler studio ACQUIRE is now an entirely owned subsidiary of Kadokawa

Kadokawa introduced the acquisition in its newest earnings report. “To strengthen the power to create IP in video games as a part of our recreation enterprise technique, we now have made ACQUIRE Corp. into an entirely owned subsidiary,” the corporate wrote. “By buying the corporate, which has produced million-seller hit titles, we anticipate to generate synergies with our current game-related subsidiaries, strengthen our planning and improvement capabilities Group huge, and improve our lineup of console video games.”

Kadokawa added that ACQUIRE is targeted on the RPG style and has the power to provide hit titles, as evidenced by Octopath Traveler and Tenchu. Apart from the aforementioned collection, ACQUIRE has additionally produced the Akiba’s Journey collection.

In the identical report, Kadokawa introduced that FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6: Fired of Rubicon carried out “past expectations.” The corporate doesn’t have a coverage of showing gross sales outcomes and forecasts for particular person titles, however stated that it’s happy with Armored Core 6.