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[Joezie]

Searched, didn't find any threads. Courtesy of SegaBits.

RPS also has the story.

SEGA Europe and Creative Assembly have finished acquiring Crytek’s former Black Sea studio and have now created a new team known as Creative Assembly Sofia. The studio was best known for the 2004 game Knights of Honor, a historical real-time strategy game. The team was picked up by Crytek in 2008 and renamed Crytek Black Sea. Under the name Crytek Black Sea they finished one game in 2015, a free-to-play MOBA title named Arena of Fate which only made it to close beta before having its plugged pulled.

Sega’s announcement explains that Creative Assembly (they’ve recently dropped the The) are now pretty flipping huge, saying “Over the last year, Creative Assembly’s headcount has risen by 37% and is now over 500-people strong.” They’ve got three studios in the UK alone. And now one in Bulgaria.

“The acquisition of Crytek Black Sea further enhances Sega Europe’s development capabilities and strengthens our ability to output diverse and engaging content for our IP. Creative Assembly Sofia will be working exclusively on content for Creative Assembly and will prove an invaluable asset given the multitude of unannounced titles currently in the works. This acquisition represents another step in the right direction for the growth of our global business, underlining our commitment to add value to our existing studios and our continued support for the UK games industry.”

Again, apologies if duplicate but I didn't find anything using the Search function.

 

[dippa]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days? Really doubled down in that space ever since the Relic acquisition.

 

[The_Dama]

Halo Wars 3 please

 

[CypherSignal]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days? Really doubled down in that space ever since the Relic acquisition.

Some throwback mascot platformer or something.

Also Football Manager is Sega, and that's kind of a big deal.

 

[kuYuri]

I presume Sega gave money to Crytek to acquire this studio? Hope they have some money to pay their employees or something...

 

[OniBaka]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days?

Yakuza

 

[Tagyhag]

I like that name, and I'm a big CA fan so I hope we just get more good things out of this.

 

[djplaeskool]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days? Really doubled down in that space ever since the Relic acquisition.

PSO2 cosmetic items

 

[Matt]

I presume Sega gave money to Crytek to acquire this studio? Hope they have some money to pay their employees or something...

Yes, it's safe to assume Sega paid for this asset they just acquired.

 

[LurkerPrime]

More waaagh! Endless waaagh!

 

[Indigo Rush]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days?

Phantasy Star Online, Puyo Puyo, Yakuza, Football Manager



and something about a hedgehog I think

 

[ponpo]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days?

http://sega.jp/arcade/

 

[tuxfool]

Sega is turning Creative Assembly into some kind of monster studio. Why?

 

[RexNovis]

Yes, it's safe to assume Sega paid for this asset they just acquired.

You were not alone in thinking that was a safe assumption. I guess you just never know these days.

 

[AmyS]

Halo Wars 3 please

Herzog Zwei 2 would be better

 

[iavi]

Creative assembly is an amazing studio and I'd wish they'd experiment more in the vein of Alien than pumping RTS out as good as they may be

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Since Crytek is in the mood to sell. Come up off that Ryse IP.

 

[tuxfool]

Since Crytek is in the mood to sell. Come up off that Ryse IP.

Nobody is willing to buy that IP. It is worth chump change and Crytek wouldn't sell it for that.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

I like this trend of publishers salvaging shuttered studios. First Ubisoft, then Warner and now Sega.

Creative Assembly has quietly become one of the biggest and arguably best studios in the industry.

 

[4Tran]

Sega is turning Creative Assembly into some kind of monster studio. Why?

CA must have been making money for Sega, and they're seeing a lot of value out of its brand.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days? Really doubled down in that space ever since the Relic acquisition.

Sega owns Atlus.

 

[Bluth54]

Since Crytek is in the mood to sell. Come up off that Ryse IP.

Who would even want that IP? I imagine most Xbox One day one buyers barely remember it exists, much less the general gaming public.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Give Creative Assembly the rights to a new Dragon Force.

I'll wait.

 

[RareFantasy64]

Is Crytek that team that there was recently a thread about saying they hadnt been paid in a few months? I want to say people who worked on the Time Splitters games are part of that group?

 

[Hatefilled Vengeance]

Hopefully MS pays them to make another Halo Wars or Age of Empires.

 

[Synth]

Is there some context that makes this even slightly less ridiculous than it initially appears to be?

 

[Maxey]

Will this somehow make Alien Isolation 2 happen?

That's all I want.

 

[Brokun]

Give Creative Assembly the rights to a new Dragon Force.

I'll wait.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Spoiler

yiss

 

[Pachael]

Is there some context that makes this even slightly less ridiculous than it initially appears to be?

It'd be less ridiculous if it were a mobile gacha game. This is an AM2 arcade game.

And still no word if AM2 are making VF6.

 

[Synth]

It'd be less ridiculous if it were a mobile gacha game. This is an AM2 arcade game.

And still no word if AM2 are making VF6.

Wow. That's actually really quite upsetting.

 

[so1337]

Yakuza

He was asking what Sega does these days, not Sony.

 

[bitbydeath]

Since Crytek is in the mood to sell. Come up off that Ryse IP.

That's not how you spell Timesplitters.

 

[IrishNinja]

man, sega really is all about this corner...it's been profitable for them, so i imagine this feels like another safe bet

Give Creative Assembly the rights to a new Dragon Force.

I'll wait.

listen to this man!

 

[Granjinha]

Sega is turning Creative Assembly into some kind of monster studio. Why?

Wut?

They have been expanding in a careful and smart way. What's wrong with that? CA was developing three projects (historical total war, total warhammer and halo wars 2 and all the DLC for warhammer) so they do need the mancount

 

[Samanosuke Akechi]

Can we please get these guys on making a sequel to alien isolation now???!!?? Such a great game.

 

[TimmiT]

What does SEGA do that isn't strategy games these days? Really doubled down in that space ever since the Relic acquisition.

Sega Europe pretty much only does strategy games at this point. Sega Japan and Sega America generally do stuff like Yakuza, Puyo Puyo, Hatsune Miku, and Sonic though. Also they own Atlus so stuff like Persona is them as well.

 

[Shard]

Is there some context that makes this even slightly less ridiculous than it initially appears to be?

No but there are contexts that will make it more.

 

[Cerium]

Being picked up by SEGA really worked out for Creative Assembly huh.

 

[Chanser]

Soon they'll make a new console.

 

[Blablurn]

Always nice to see when a studio makes it through troubled times like this.

 

[KahooTs]

I fear the future quality of TW games suffering from all the peripheral stuff relating to CA. Yeah, yeah, different teams and all that, still.

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

I'm not familiar with he acquired dev all that much other than their flagship, but between seeing some devs hopefully getting their jobs saved, and one of the lone 'big' strategy games devs that actually still make big strategy and RTS games, good news in more than one way.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Wait, didn't the Crytek Black Sea leads already leave and form Black Sea Games after Crytek announced they were closing the studio down? So is Sega buying the old studio or the new one?

 

[Blam]

SEGA's coming quite the powerhouse with all their IP and studios that they now control.

 

[IronRaven]

Is there some context that makes this even slightly less ridiculous than it initially appears to be?

Nope. If you play Kantai Collection (browser game) or have watched the anime, it'll make sense. Sega makes the Kantai Collection arcade cabinet. I haven't played it, but I really want to.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Soon they'll make a new console.

It's nice to want things, but that dream is dead. Thanks Bernie Stolar.

 

[ponpo]

Is there some context that makes this even slightly less ridiculous than it initially appears to be?

Context - currently the best non rhythm game arcade game on the market!

 

[cj_iwakura]

Context - currently the best non rhythm game arcade game on the market!

Better than Maximum Tune?

 

[ponpo]

Better than Maximum Tune?

Without a doubt.

Actually sega also makes the best "bemani" game in Chunithm. Step it up, Konami.

 

[jorgeton]

Give Creative Assembly the rights to a new Dragon Force.

I'll wait.

Yup.