Amazon acquires Double Helix

[Icemage]

What in the heck? This is the studio behind Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct for Microsoft and the new Strider reboot for Capcom.

Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games | TechCrunch

This feels like Shots Fired in the games console space. /opinion

Amazon has acquired a gaming studio called Double Helix Games, TechCrunch has learned, and Amazon now confirms. The deal was for both talent and IP, we understand. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

The Irvine, California-based company, founded in 2007 through the merger of two well-known game development shops, The Collective, Inc. and Shiny Entertainment, today employs 75 people who will now become Amazon employees and will continue to operate out of their Orange County home.

More at the link.

EDIT: It occurs to me that this puts Microsoft in a serious bind with respect to Killer Instinct. KI turned out to be a decent fighting game, but with the studio behind it basically gone, who's left to take over development for season 2 of Killer Instinct? Rare? (lol)


Icemage

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: Amazon acquires Double Helix

Funny how the solution to mobile eating into game console's profit is apparently to have more game consoles. Steam OS and forks! (Standing tall on the corpse of Ouya?)

[Malacite]

Re: Amazon acquires Double Helix

Double Helix sucks though... all they've ever made is trash.

[Feba]

Re: Amazon acquires Double Helix

I wonder if Amazon just wants to set themselves up to be both the publisher and the bookstore, as it were. They're already kinda there with Kindle and the self publishing stuff, I think they have something like that going on with music as well. It would make perfect sense for them to expand into games.