{"id":61824,"date":"2022-08-31T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netease-games-acquires-quantic-dream\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:16:00","slug":"netease-games-acquires-quantic-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netease-games-acquires-quantic-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"NetEase Games acquires Quantic Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NetEase Games has acquired French studio and <em>Detroit: Become Human<\/em>, <em>Beyond: Two Souls<\/em>and <em>heavy rain<\/em> developer Quantic Dream, the company announced. <span id=\"more-762254\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the Chinese company&#8217;s first studio in Europe, Quantic Dream will continue to operate independently, focusing on creating and publishing games for all platforms, as well as supporting and publishing third-party-developed titles, while also leveraging NetEase&#8217;s game development capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to embark on an exciting new stage of growth with Quantic Dream, bound by our shared vision, mutual trust and respect,\u201d said NetEase CEO and director William Ding in a press release.  \u201cNetEase will continue to fulfil our promise to support Quantic Dream to realize its full potential.  By combining the wild creativity and exceptional narrative focus of Quantic Dream with NetEase&#8217;s powerful facilities, resources and execution capabilities, we believe there are infinite possibilities that could re-define the interactive entertainment experience we provide for players worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AD: content --><\/p>\n<p>Quantic Dream founder, CEO, and writer-director David Cage added, \u201cToday marks an important milestone for our studio after a quarter century of complete independence.  NetEase Games values \u200b\u200bour creative freedom and the drive and passion of our uniquely diverse team.  We will now be able to accelerate the vision we share as a group, of creating landmark titles that touch people on an emotional level.  We have highly differentiated games in the making and I truly believe that the best is yet to come from Quantic Dream.  I am particularly proud that our employees, who were offered a significant share of our capital over the past years, will fully benefit from this acquisition.  It is a testimony to our continued commitment to reward all those who have made Quantic Dream the successful studio it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quantic Dream co-CEO and head of publishing Guillaume de Fondaumiere said, \u201cNetEase Games first invested in Quantic Dream three years ago.  Over this period, we had the opportunity to work closely together and saw first-hand how like-minded and complementary we are.  NetEase Games&#8217; acquisition comes as a natural evolution in this process and creates a unique opportunity to boost Quantic Dream&#8217;s growth by giving our production and publishing teams all the necessary means to excel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quantic Dream is currently developing <em>Star Wars Eclipse<\/em> for unannounced platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetEase Games has acquired French studio and Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Soulsand heavy rain developer Quantic Dream, the company announced. As the Chinese company&#8217;s first studio in Europe, Quantic Dream will continue to operate independently, focusing on creating and publishing games for all platforms, as well as supporting and publishing third-party-developed titles, while also &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/netease-games-acquires-quantic-dream\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NetEase Games acquires Quantic Dream<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61702,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/heavy-rain-developer-quantic-dream-acquired-by-netease\/","url_meta":{"origin":61824,"position":0},"title":"Heavy Rain Developer Quantic Dream Acquired By NetEase","date":"August 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"French developer-publisher Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human) has been acquired by Chinese company NetEase.NetEase announced the acquisition today (no purchase price has been revealed), which follows its investment in Quantic Dream three years ago. 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