Kadokawa Corporation Acquires Octopath Traveler Developer Acquire - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2024 / 3,703 Views
Kadokawa Corporation announced it has acquired Octopath Traveler developer Acquire from GungHo Online Entertainment.
"To strengthen the ability to create IP in games as part of our game business strategy, we have made Acquire Corp. into a wholly owned subsidiary," said Kadokawa Corporation in its latest earnings report.
"By acquiring the company, which has produced million-seller hit titles, we expect to generate synergies with our existing game-related subsidiaries, strengthen our planning and development capabilities Groupwide, and enhance our lineup of console games."
Acquire was founded in 1994 and has developed the Octopath Traveler series for Square Enix, as well as Tenchu and Way of the Samurai series, which are owned by Kadokawa Group subsidiaries FromSoftware and Spike Chunsoft.
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The Acquiré has become the Acquired
Would have thought Square Enix would have acquired Acquire.
Well this article failed to mention they "co-developed" the game with Square. Acquire is pretty small, an AA dev. Nintendo and SS both have influence over the company anyways through ownership and other ties.
thanks for clarying
I just hope this doesn't mean they'll go down the drain by producing subpar licensed games. They've done a superb job with SE for the Octopath series
I was so confused as I kept reading it as 'subpar job'. Octopath is indeed fantastic. I have yet to play the second one, just too many games these days.
Having too many games to play is never truly a problem haha. But if you enjoyed the first game, which had fair criticisms at the time. The second game basically polishes it all . You won't even be hardpress to also find people who thinks Octopath Traveler would deserves to stand with the greatest JRPGs of it's generation. It is that fantastic !
Kadokwa did some amazing catches...
First From Software, now Acquire. Remarkable if you ask me.
Kadokawa is from Chiyoda, ie Edo, ie the wealthiest part of Tokyo. They are rich. I think they mainly make money publishing manga etc? I can't remember.
Kadokawa is becoming a juggernaut
Ok, I first thought the title was a typo.
