THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on April 28, 2014, 01:59:50 AM

Title: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 28, 2014, 01:59:50 AM
The news hasn't hit any English-language video game sites yet, though:

http://gamebiz.jp/?p=129706
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: MCD on April 28, 2014, 02:02:50 AM
Quote from: RyougaSaotome
So apparently Kadokawa has acquired From Software from Transcosmos (parent company? Not sure). Looking into synergy with Kadokawa Games (ick).

http://gamebiz.jp/?p=129706 (http://gamebiz.jp/?p=129706)

Still making sense of this. Sorry for the sparse deets.

For clarification, Kadokawa was behind Demon Gaze, Killer is Dead, and a large variety of shitty games based on anime series. They're also behind the money making giant that is KanColle.

In before Armored KanColleCore.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109770727&postcount=1

Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: benjipwns on April 28, 2014, 02:14:07 AM
Should have never pulled the Dark Souls II fraud on gamers, now look at them.
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: MCD on April 28, 2014, 02:31:16 AM
more and more Japanese small companies are getting merged or absorbed by bigger companies. next gen sure is boring.
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: Bebpo on April 28, 2014, 03:02:31 AM
Quote from: MCD on April 28, 2014, 02:31:16 AM
more and more Japanese small companies are getting merged or absorbed by bigger companies. next gen sure is boring.

I think you mean the final generation.
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: thisismyusername on April 28, 2014, 06:25:38 AM
Quote from: Bebpo on April 28, 2014, 03:02:31 AM
Quote from: MCD on April 28, 2014, 02:31:16 AM
more and more Japanese small companies are getting merged or absorbed by bigger companies. next gen sure is boring.

I think you mean the final generation.


Does this mean we get "Deep Slack Nine" as the title for Generation 9?

Anyway, probably good for From? Armored Core has been kinda waning in the US for two generations now. De/Dark Souls is the moneymaker for them in the west, AFAIK. Their stuff is generally niche. If it means From can bankroll King's Field/Souls without Namco shenanigans then I'm for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadokawa_Shoten

Wut, how the hell is Lunar developed by them? And if that's the case: HOW THE HELL do you go from Lunar 1-2 to Demon Gaze?  :lol
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: Yulwei on April 28, 2014, 07:27:18 AM
Quote from: benjipwns on April 28, 2014, 02:14:07 AM
Should have never pulled the Dark Souls II fraud on gamers, now look at them.

the con didn't pay off  :lol

fuck them
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: demi on April 28, 2014, 08:07:46 AM
They got sick of making one-note Suda games.
Title: Re: From Software just got bought out by Kadokawa
Post by: Raban on April 28, 2014, 08:53:43 AM
I just woke up and this is what I'm greeted by?
:whoo :whoo :whoo