The British studio responsible for The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology is now owned by the same company as Metroid Dread maker MercurySteam.
You’ve probably never heard of Danish company Nordisk Games before but they’re quietly accruing quite the line-up of celebrated studios, including Just Cause developer Avalanche, Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam, and now Until Dawn creator Supermassive Games.
Nordisk Games already bought a 30.7% stake in Supermassive last year and now they’ve upped that to 100%, which is no doubt good news for Supermassive but means yet another independent British developer is now owned by someone else.
There’s no real indication of what Nordisk is going to do with the studio but given Avalanche is still working with Microsoft and Square Enix it doesn’t seem as if anything will necessarily change, especially in the short term.
Although they’ve just released The Quarry, Supermassive also has a host of additional The Dark Pictures games planned with Bandai Namco, many of which
