Monumental Picks Up 50% of 50 Cent Developer
The studio was one of the many that Activision Blizzard hoped to sell after the Vivendi Games merger, with Swordfish's 50 Cent game among those dropped from the company's publishing slate as it did not fit with Activision's sequel-centric plans.
Monumental picked up Swordfish's 26-person Manchester branch for an undisclosed sum. The fate of the Birmingham office is not yet known, though publisher THQ has signed on to release 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand early next year.
"The Swordfish team is one of the very few developers worldwide to have fully solved the hugely complex issues involved in running and managing the XLSP (Xbox Live! Server Platform) server environments for online console gaming," explained Monumental CEO Rik Alexander.
"This knowledge base will help to consolidate Monumental's position as the market leading online game developer."
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socksta
replyDon't play with my emotions here Faylor, are you saying that 50 Cent BOTS is back in development????
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50 Cent BOTS will arrive next year courtesy THQ.
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... for a second i thought they were making a game with 50 cent fighting alien robots (BOTS)...
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It was never cancelled. Like the article said and Faylor mentioned in that comment. THQ has picked up the publishing rights to the 50 Cent game.
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