{"id":119626,"date":"2020-10-21T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/372293"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:32:00","slug":"devolver-digital-acquires-serious-sam-dev-croteam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/21\/devolver-digital-acquires-serious-sam-dev-croteam\/","title":{"rendered":"Devolver Digital acquires Serious Sam dev Croteam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-9b61bc3a-7fff-1e56-cf7a-129105ef904b\"><span>Devolver Digital has acquired <em>Serious Sam<\/em> and <em>The Talos Principle<\/em> developer Croteam, a joining of forces that Devolver says builds on years of collaboration between key members of both teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>According to a tongue-in-cheek blog posted by the folks at Devolver, Croteam is set to retain creative freedom even as a Devolver subsidiary. The team is set to continue development on <em>The Talos Principle 2<\/em>, new <em>Serious Sam<\/em> titles, and an unannounced original IP as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cA decade ago Devolver Digital was just getting started and looking for its first project to partner on in the emerging digital distribution world,\u201d reads <a href=\"https:\/\/devolverdigital.com\/propaganda\/croteam-and-devolver-got-hitched\">that blog post<\/a>. \u201cSimilarly, Croteam was on the search for a partner it could trust to help them bring their beloved franchise back to prominence with the upcoming <em>Serious Sam 3<\/em>. And like that, the next big <em>Serious Sam <\/em>game brought old partners back together and forged a decade of friendship and dedication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cSince then Croteam and Devolver Digital have partnered on dozens of games &#8211; from the frantic<em> Serious Sam <\/em>series to the award-winning <em>The Talos Principle<\/em> across PC, consoles, VR and mobile platforms. Croteam and Devolver Digital have been dating for so long that we decided to go ahead and just get married.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devolver Digital has acquired Serious Sam and The Talos Principle developer Croteam, a joining of forces that Devolver says builds on years of collaboration between key members of both teams. According to a tongue-in-cheek blog posted by the folks at Devolver, Croteam is set to retain creative freedom even as a Devolver subsidiary. The team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}