Focus Entertainment: "We're trying to build a Federation of Studios"
Christopher Dring
Head of Games B2B
Thursday 19th May 2022
Focus Home Interactive
Focus Entertainment -- the artist formerly known as Focus Home Interactive -- has been rapidly acquiring studios over the past two years.
It began in June 2020 with the acquisition of Deck13, the developer behind The Surge and Lords of Fallen.
In April last year it acquired Streum On Studio, the team responsible for Warhammer first-person shooters such as Space Hulk: Deathwing and Necromunda: Hired Gun.
It snapped up retro games publisher and developer Dotemu (Windjammers, Streets of Rage 4) a few months later. Followed swiftly by Douze Dixièmes, the creator of 3D puzzle platformer Shady Part of Me. Then earlier this year came Metal Slug Tactics developer Leiker Studio.
Yves Le Yaouanq, Focus Entertainment
Shooters, RPGs, retro-style games and puzzlers... it's an eclectic group of studios operating in a range of different niches.
"Being genre agnostic has always been part of our DNA," begins chief content officer Yves Le Yaouanq, who joined Focus in March last year following nearly 11 years at Ubisoft.
"We have a strong palatability for mature and dark universes, but we're expanding our own boundaries, with the same objective: turning initial nice concepts or gameplays into mass market titles.
"This is our strategy, consolidating and expanding in genres we already have experience in, while gaining new audiences and new talents in genres that provide different game emotions. We'll keep investigating and expanding in games-as-a-service genres, with fair business models for the players, but we will also address those gamers interested in more completed experiences, searching for more diversified gameplays and narratives, and not necessarily games
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