Owned by the Japanese publisher Sega since 2016, the French studio Amplitude will become independent again to start “a new cycle”.
The Parisian video game studio Amplitude is resuming its independence, eight years after being bought by the Japanese group Sega, the French company announced on Friday.
“Amplitude is becoming independent again,” the studio said on its distribution platform Games2Gether.
A return to independence after the Sega era
“While the studio is once again owned by some of its founders and team members, the creative vision for our games and the universe Endless (named after a series of games developed by the studio, Editor’s note) remain in the hands of those who know them best.
Amplitude thus formalized the conclusion of a “Management Buy-Out”, a buyout of the company by its managers, which involved the acquisition of nearly 40 directors and employees of the studio.
“It’s a new cycle that is starting,” its director, Romain de Waubert de Genlis, told AFP, expressing a desire to “get closer to the players”.
Amplitude, founded in 2011 by two former Ubisoft developers and which currently has more than 160 employees, is known for Endlessstrategy games inspired by the science fiction universe of Dune and for Humankinda strategy game in line with what the series offers Civilization.
