Sony Interactive Entertainment has expanded its first-party studios yet again with its fifth acquisition of the year.
On Friday, thePlayStationparent confirmed it had acquired Seattle-based support studio Valkyrie Entertainment.
Over the past two decades, Valkyrie has contributed to triple-A projects such asHalo Infinite,God of War(and it’s upcoming sequel),League of Legends,Forza Motorsport 7and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War.
PlayStation Studios bossHermen Hulstsaidin a statement: “Today we announce Valkyrie Entertainment will be joining the PlayStation Studios family. The studio will be making invaluable contributions to key PlayStation Studios franchises.”
Valkyrie marks the latest in a busy six months of acquisitions for PlayStation. In June SIE acquiredReturnal developer Housemarque. This was followed by the acquisitions ofPC port studio Nixxes, ex-WipEout devs FirespriteandDemon’s Souls PS5 developer Bluepoint.
PlayStation now has 17 internal teams, and speaking ahead of its latest acquisition, Studios boss Hulst wouldn’t rule out further additions.
“We are open always to building new relationships or bringing people in-house, but only if we adhere to the quality-first mentality and the right kind of innovative content, new experiences, diverse experiences,” he toldIGNin October.
“Because all of these teams, they share a lot, but they’re also very different from one another, and that’s what I really like. And I think that’s what the PlayStation audience, the PlayStation fans, deserve, it’s that diverse slate of games coming out of PlayStation Studios.”
Hulst added: “We’re not buying teams to just be bigger. We’re only buying teams because we feel that together, we’re going to make something that is going to be even better than if we did it separate from one another.”
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Outside of studio acquisitions,Sonyhas been investing inPS5exclusives through partnerships with several promising independent studios.
The company isfunding an original IP from a AAA start-up studioestablished by formerStadiagames bossJade Raymond.
It has alsosigned an original multiplayer projectfrom Firewalk, a new studio founded byBungieveterans, and willpublish the debut title from Deviation Games, a studio headed up by former Call of Duty veterans Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell.
