PlayStation buys a mobile game studio you’ve never heard of
Savage Game Studios is the latest PlayStation acquisition and it’s already working on a live service game for mobile.
Sony is eager to release its games beyond the confines of PlayStation consoles, not just PC but also mobile. While we’ve seen plenty of its biggest titles make the jump to the former, we’ve yet to see much progress for the latter.
It is happening though, as the company has acquired another studio specifically to bring new and existing PlayStation franchises to mobile devices.
The studio in question is Savage Game Studios which, according to its own website, makes ‘action games with epic stories to foster lasting connections with players around the world.’
That said, Savage Game Studios doesn’t appear to have made a single game yet. It was founded only two years ago and the only indication of what it’s first game was going to be, before Sony bought them, is that it’s a ‘competitive mobile shooter.’
Sony’s primary interest in the company may have been in its staff, since the founders are all veterans. Co-founders Michail Katkoff, Nadjim Adjir, and Michael McManus each has experience with mobile game development, with Katkoff having served as an executive producer at both Rovio (the Angry Birds studio) and Zynga.
Adjir, meanwhile, was once an associate producer on mobile games at Aeria Games and, just before joining Savage Game Studios, was senior product manager, and later product director, on the mobile online multiplayer game World Of Warships Blitz at Wargaming.
McManus also happened to work at Wargaming as a technical director around the same time. Before that, he worked at Kabam, another mobile gaming company. Coincidentally enough, he was a senior gameplay programmer at the now Sony owned Insomniac, where he
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