Improbable Snaps Up Seattle-Based ‘Scavengers’ Developer Midwinter Entertainment
London-based games technology company Improbable announced today that it has acquired ‘Scavengers’ developer, Midwinter Entertainment. According to the press release, the recent acquisition is Imrobable’s first ever acquisition of a fully-established game development studio.
“This acquisition is the culmination of a mutually beneficial partnership between Improbable and Midwinter. Midwinter brings to Improbable a high calibre of technical expertise and significant experience developing for AAA games. Their continued contribution to Improbable’s core technology, SpatialOS, will now be streamlined, ing Improbable’s other internal studios in furthering the platform, making it a more useful tool for independent game developers and studios building multiplayer games.”
“I’ve been hugely excited by Midwinter and Scavengers since the first time I talked to Josh,” says Improbable CEO and Co-founder Herman Narula. “The game development talent at our studios is world-class and is showing us the way when it comes to using SpatialOS to build and iterate on game worlds quickly to introduce groundbreaking games to market. We are very excited by Scavengers and its potential - but also equally thrilled to see how Josh and his team work alongside our global game studios to build solutions and features that help transform the experience of game development for our customers in the future.”
“From the beginning, our collaboration with Improbable has been mutually rewarding and this move allows us to forces to create something bigger and better,” says Midwinter Entertainment Co-founder and Studio Head Josh Holmes. “ing Improbable’s game studios enables us to collaborate more directly with the studios in London and Edmonton, and the SpatialOS platform team. This, in addition to Improbable’s significant investment in the development of Scavengers, will allow us to accelerate our development and bring our vision for the game to life much more vividly than would otherwise be possible.”
Announced back in March 2018, Scavengers, Midwinter Entertainment’s debut title, is a class-based online multiplayer shooter featuring a unique “co-opetition” system. Set in a frigid post-apocalyptic world, teams compete to collect resources, battling not only with each other but also against advanced AI enemies. Players can take on the frozen wasteland’s challenges as a single team or form fragile alliances with other teams to increase their chances of winning. The game is being developed with Unreal Engine and Improbable’s Spatial OS and partly funded through a multimillion-dollar investment from Improbable.
