Nacon to Acquire Daedalic Entertainment in a €53 Million Deal - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 February 2022 / 2,034 Views
Nacon announced it will acquire Acquire Daedalic Entertainment in a €53 million deal that is expected to close later this year.
Nacon and Daedalic Entertainment were already partnered for the upcoming game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Nacon will acquire several IPs and benefit from Daedalic Entertainment's development and publishing.
Daedalic Entertainment was founded in 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. The studio has published more than 90 games have grown to 78 employees. The studios has developed the Deponia series, Shadow Tactics, Blackguards, The Whispered World, and more.
"We knew, through our current collaboration on Gollum, that Nacon and Daedalic share the same values and the same objectives to deliver unique experiences to gamers," said Nacon chairman and CEO Alain Falc. "Therefore, it seemed logical to go further together and we’re extremely happy of this acquisition. It represents a significant step in Nacon’s strategy."
Daedalic Entertainment founder and CEO Carsten Fichtelmann added, "After eventful years in which we always came out on top, I feel proud looking back at the past 15 years and the development of the company. Daedalic Entertainment has established itself as a publisher and developer of exceptional games across various genres and on all relevant platforms and has cemented that position globally.
"Together with Nacon, we are now taking the next step to further develop our catalogue of games created by our own team as well as many incredible indie studios. We are looking back at a trusting and cooperative collaboration on The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and forward to an even brighter future together."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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No matter how I feel about Nacon it’s a good thing that them and Focus Interactive are acquiring and expanding because a ton of their business partners are getting bought out.
They are being forced to buy studios with Tencent and Embracer gobbling up everything they can, i wouldn’t be shocked to see 505 Games also start to buy up studios.
Unfortunatelly there is always the possibility that after Nacon and other after buying several smaller studios are absorved by Tecent and the like.
Yeah or even Embracer, people seem to forget that they formerly Nordic Games absorbed another Euro Publisher in Koch Media (Deep Silver).
The market has changed dramatically, but I hope that these smaller publishers get left alone especially Focus Interactive since I have played a number of titles that they have published and they are needed for the AA industry to stay alive.
I never before heard about Nacon (I know Daedalic Entertainment though and love their games). A bit of googling gave me the name Bigben Interactive, which was the former name. Bigben Interactive I've seen before as game logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacon
Never heard of them and is that 53m euro?
Didn`t Nacon bought a company this week? Well good that smaller studios are strenghtening themselves as well.
53m.. cute
wow... The downvotes for a joke :) Was funny anyway! Now if an acquisition is below 1B, this is small changes ;)
