Ubisoft Acquires 'Brawlhalla' Developer Blue Mammoth Games For Undisclosed Amount

Ubisoft has announced that it has acquired Atlanta, Georgia-based indie game programmer, Blue Mammoth Games, best known for free-to-play platform fighter 'Brawlhalla'. This is the second conquering this week for the French video game giant after it picked up Canadian mobile game developer '1492 Studio' on Feb 28. According to Ubisoft, the acquisition is expected to be "immediately accretive" to the visitor's earnings, but the exact terms remain undisclosed apart from the fact that it was finalized on March 1.

The Ubisoft press release mentions that Blueish Mammoth currently has 21 employees, which includes the company's co-founders, Mathew Woomer and Lincoln Hamilton. According to Laurent Detoc, the President of Ubisoft NVSA, "The team at Blue Mammoth Games is expert at developing and running scalable, competitive, multiplayer online games, and they'll exist a great addition to Ubisoft'southward network of studios".

Blueish Mammoth's co-founder Woomer too released a rather lengthy press statement on its blog, where he expressed satisfaction at the latest developments. According to the Woomer, "It'due south a big step for us. Blueish Mammoth is going from a scrappy, never-say-die indie studio, to a scrappy, never-say-die Ubisoft studio". Ubisoft has some of the well-nigh popular gaming franchises under its chugalug, like Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Half dozen, etc.

Woomer besides promised that the company's current management will retain full command over the day-to-day running of the company, challenge that "Blue Mammoth will continue to run the game (Brawlhalla) just every bit we ever have". And that includes, keeping it free-to play. According to the company, "Brawlhalla will be always free to play and never pay to win. None of that volition e'er change".