Krafton will purchase Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds – Destructoid

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The studio can have a brand new early entry sport subsequent 12 months
The corporate at present behind PUBG: Battlegrounds has introduced {that a} new studio can be becoming a member of its ranks. Krafton has confirmed it will likely be buying Subnautica and Pure Choice developer Unknown Worlds.
This provides one other video games studio to Krafton’s lineup, which already consists of PUBG Studios, Bluehole Studio, RisingWings, Dreamotion, and Hanging Distance Studios. Unknown Worlds will proceed to operate as an unbiased studio, with its construction and management intact.
“It was instantly obvious how carefully Unknown Worlds and Krafton are aligned in the best way we take into consideration video games and sport growth,” mentioned Unknown Worlds CEO Charlie Cleveland in a press launch. “Subnautica and PUBG each began humbly and developed efficiently by means of fixed iteration and suggestions. We need to deliver new video games to the world stage—and with Krafton, we’re an enormous step nearer. We’re really wanting ahead to our future collectively.”

Unknown Worlds will proceed engaged on updates for Subnautica and Subnautica: Under Zero. Right now’s announcement additionally confirmed the developer is at present engaged on a brand new “genre-defining” sport, which is ready to launch in early entry subsequent 12 months.
Krafton has been steadily buying new initiatives over the previous few years. One very notable one is The Callisto Protocol, which is a sci-fi horror sport set within the PUBG universe being developed by Hanging Distance Studios by former Useless Area builders.
It additionally not too long ago rebranded PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, typically shorthanded into PUBG, to be PUBG: Battlegrounds.
There’s no extra data on what Unknown Worlds is engaged on, or whether or not it should have related ties to the PUBG model. That mentioned, Subnautica is a type of video games that actually appears to encourage a number of fervor in its followers. Their subsequent challenge will seemingly be one to keep watch over.