PopCap Acquires Gastronaut Studios
- Scribbled on February 27th, 2009 by casualgamerchick
- Filed in Casual Gaming, Microsoft Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade
Looks like PopCap Games is looking to get into the Xbox 360 playing field wiht the acquisition of Gastronaut Studios. Gastronaut Studios makes Xbox and Xbox 360 titles, but they also develop for Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) and have a top-seller on the network. Gastronaut Studios has worked with PopCap Games in the past. They brought Feeding Frenzy 2 to XBLA and are adapting Peggle for XBLA.
PopCap has acquired the companies assets and employees. They also gained exclusive rights to Gastronaut Studios’ tools and technologies, but Gastronaut founders will retain ownership of their original properties and their upcoming XBLA puzzle game, Gel.
“The Gastronaut Studios acquisition signals PopCap’s continued commitment to internal development of top quality games for a range of platforms,” noted David Roberts, CEO of PopCap. “Given the success of Gastronaut’s top-selling Small Arms franchise in particular, there’s little doubt that PopCap has significantly increased its development capabilities and creative firepower. The team at Gastronaut has been a great partner of ours, and we’re delighted to have them join us here at PopCap. ”
PopCap keeps acquiring development studios and are growing their company and gaining strengths. It is great to see a company like PopCap be able to expand and add to the great talent they already possess.
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