Dead by Daylight writer acquires Scavengers studio, scraps console ports

Acquiring a video game studio is the hip factor to do proper now, and it looks like we’re listening to a couple of new one each week. The newest acquisition comes from Dead by Daylight writer Behaviour Interactive, who’s scooping up Midwinter Entertainment, makers of free-to-play survival game Scavengers.

Eurogamer was knowledgeable of the acquisition, and it’s the second in latest reminiscence for Improbable Worlds Limited, Midwinter’s dad or mum firm. Improbable offered Nightingale developer Inflexion to gaming large Tencent only a few months in the past in February. That sale didn’t have an effect on the standing of Nightingale (a first-person survival game deliberate for launch later this 12 months), however the identical can’t be mentioned for Midwinter and Scavengers. Eurogamer realized that as a part of the sale, console variations of the game have been scrapped. They had been in closed alpha testing earlier than being canned, however Scavengers’ PC model remains to be out there on Steam and the Epic Game Store.

Scavengers hasn’t seen notably excessive success as is. After launching in early entry a couple of 12 months in the past, it shortly got here below fireplace for alleged pay-to-win mechanics. It later started experimenting with gameplay areas for as much as 5,000 gamers, a formidable degree of scale for any developer. Midwinter is now engaged on a brand new mission for Behaviour, in response to what Eurogamer was instructed. A small group will proceed sustaining the PC model of Scavengers, for the reason that game remains to be in early entry.

As for Midwinter’s new proprietor, Behaviour Interactive is finest generally known as the writer of Dead by Daylight, an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game that’s been receiving a gradual stream of recent content material since launching almost six years in the past. One participant takes on the function of the killer, who should the search out all the opposite gamers, generally known as the survivors. There are many maps to hunt throughout, from murky swamps to deserted farms to a number of movie-based cities.

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