World of Tanks dev acquires Gas Powered Games
In announcing the cancellation of his Wildman Kickstarter earlier this week, Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor said he had something in the works for his company to survive. Enter Wargaming, which has announced it has acquired the embattled developer for an undisclosed sum.
In announcing the cancellation of his Wildman Kickstarter earlier this week, Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor said he had something in the works for his company to survive. Enter Wargaming.net, which has announced it has acquired the embattled developer for an undisclosed sum.
"Gas Powered Games' heritage and development pedigree shows us just how valuable an addition Chris and his company will make to the Wargaming family," said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming, in a press release. Wargaming.net is best known for their work on World of Tanks. "Gas Powered Games has a long track record of providing incredibly engaging AAA gaming experiences and we can't wait to start working with them."
"I'm sure our experience and expertise will help us contribute even more to Wargaming's global success," Taylor said in the release, but there was no mention if Taylor will continue developing Wildman or the stalled Kings and Castles title for Wargaming, or if he will be able to rehire any of the GPG team released a few weeks ago. We've contacted Taylor and will update if he answers any of these questions.
Wargaming has been expanding significantly as of late, having added MechAssault and FEAR 3 dev Day 1 Studios as Wargaming West in late January.
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In announcing the cancellation of his Wildman Kickstarter earlier this week, Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor said he had something in the works for his company to survive. Enter Wargaming, which has announced it has acquired the embattled developer for an undisclosed sum.-
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Dude they're funding searches for spitfires, they're fucking loaded, it's massive. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/120389-Wargaming-net-Funds-Real-Life-Spitfire-Find
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Every dollar that we pay Wargaming they are able to turn that into $80 of counterfeit bills.
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It's pretty massive in Russia.
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it makes > 10,000,000 per month
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the game's out in other regions, too- like Korea
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did you make him join the shack clan
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Have you listed to him talking about the development of TA/SC/SC2 on Three Moves Ahead? Some interesting stuff. Like, I had no idea TA's ground was 2D. Totally fooled me.
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Yeah whenever someone does the "I am going full honesty" mode and self depreciates like he did in explaining he didn't have the experience to recognize the mistakes, it makes for interesting listening.
He may have revealed a little too much though and harmed future endeavors.
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Just call it something else and have it be a spiritual sequel like SC was to TA.
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