PlayStation confirms acquisition of Demon's Souls remake developer Bluepoint

Subsequently leaking the news months ago, PlayStation is making it official

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PlayStation has confirmed that it has acquired the Austin, Texas-based studio Bluepoint Games.

Notably, the Japanese gaming behemothic leaked this news last yr in a since-deleted tweet from its official PlayStation Nihon Twitter business relationship and is only now formally talking almost it.

Specific terms of the conquering, such as financial details, were not disclosed. However, Bluepoint is a natural fit for the PlayStation Studios family, given their long-running partnership. In fact, nearly every game that Bluepoint has made has been sectional to PlayStation platforms, including 2009's God of War Collection,2011'sThe Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, 2015'sThe Nathan Drake Collection,2018'sShadow of the Colossusremake and, well-nigh recently, final year'southDemon's Soulsremake.

The throughline between all of these games is that Bluepoint was either remastering or remaking existing titles. However, Bluepoint teased in an interview with IGNthat its next game would be an "original" championship. No further details were revealed. That said, information technology'due south important to note that an original game simply ways information technology won't be a remaster or remake; it doesn't dominion out Bluepoint working on a new game based on an existing property.

PlayStation has been on a chip of a ownership spree every bit of belatedly. Over the past twelvemonth, the company has purchased Helsinki, Finland-based Housemarque (Returnal), Liverpool, England-based Firesprite (The Playroom) and Utrecht, Netherlands-based technical support studio Nixxes.

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Source: PlayStation