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Sega Purchases Amplitude Studios

 

 

July 5, in the year of our Lord 2016 -- SEGA Games Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Representative Director, and Chief Executive Officer: Haruki Satomi, “SEGA Games” ), a subsidiary of SEGA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Representative Director, and Chief Operating Officer: Hideki Okamura) acquired all shares of Amplitude Studios SAS (Headquarters: Paris, France, “Amplitude Studios”) on July 1, 2016 in order to further strengthen its PC game portfolio and development capabilities in the U.S. and European regions.

Amplitude Studios has released three titles within the “Endless” series; “Endless Space (2012)”, “Endless Legend (2014)” and “Dungeon of the Endless (2014)”, with a fourth, “Endless Space 2”, currently in development.

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Amplitude Studios is an independent game studio established in 2011 by Mathieu Girard and Romain de Waubert de Genlis. Amplitude Studios is known for their turn-based strategy titles (*1), specialising in 4X PC games (*2) for US and European market. The “Endless” series has garnered attention thanks to its compelling strategic features and high quality graphics which have resulted in more than 2.4 million copies sold worldwide, across its three titles.

“To have the opportunity to add a studio with the growing reputation of Amplitude’s, to the SEGA family, is an exciting one and reinforces SEGA Europe’s position as a market leader in publishing high quality PC games” said Jurgen Post, President/COO for SEGA Europe Ltd. “Culturally, Amplitude are a fantastic fit for the business as they not only produce great games, but also have a proven track record in listening to their fans and directly involving them in the ongoing development of their games through their GAMES2GETHER system.”

With this acquisition, SEGA Games will increase its presence in the global games market. Amplitude Studios’ top-quality content and accumulated development know-how will allow the SEGA Group to continue to bring high-quality entertainment experiences to their customers.

*1 Strategy games: A popular video game genre which focus on strategy and tactics.
*2 4X games: A sub-genre of strategy videogames where players focus on the 4 ‘X’s’: “explore”, “expand”, “exploit” and “exterminate.”

   

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