Take-Two Interactive is selling disconnected its indie games statement Private Division, which published titles specified arsenic The Outer Worlds and OlliOlli World, pursuing rumors implicit the summer that Take-Two laid disconnected astir of Private Division’s staff.
Take-Two did not disclose the purchaser of Private Division oregon however overmuch they paid. In an emailed connection to The Verge, Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis wrote:
We precocious made the strategical determination to merchantability our Private Division statement to absorption our resources connected increasing our halfway and mobile businesses for the long-term. As portion of this transaction, the purchaser purchased our rights to substantially each of Private Division’s unrecorded and unreleased titles.
Take-Two volition proceed to enactment No Rest for the Wicked, which launched successful Early Access connected PC successful April. We are grateful for the contributions that the Private Division squad has made to our institution and are assured that they volition proceed to execute occurrence successful their caller home.
According to Bloomberg, the statement has been plagued by “a drawstring of flops, including Kerbal Space Program 2, which was afloat of bugs and panned by fans.” Private Division games, including the upcoming The Lord of the Rings farm simulator Tales of the Shire, arsenic good arsenic Pokémon developer Game Freak’s untitled crippled known arsenic Project Bloom, volition determination implicit to the caller buyer. However, Private Divison’s purchaser won’t get the rights to No Rest for the Wicked.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told GamesIndustry.biz that the purchaser would beryllium named soon and said, “The squad of Private Division did a large occupation supporting autarkic developers and, astir to a one, each task they supported did well. However, the standard of those projects was, candidly, connected the smaller side, and we’re successful the concern of making large large hits,” similar the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI.