Local developer Krome Studios has announced their acquisition of the former Atari and local developer Melbourne House. Atari began selling off Melbourne House and many other studios earlier in the year as a means to survive.
More info inside
Melbourne House has been around for a while making such games as Super International Cricket (as Beam Software) for the SNES to Transformers on the PS2. Krome have revealed in a Interview with GamaSutra that the studio will be named Krome Studios Melbourne and the team’s numbers will rise to almost 300 people.
This now makes them the largest video game company in Australia and one of the largest independent game studios in the world.
Gamasutra have an interview with co-founder Robert Walsh about the acquisition here
About the Author
