NetDevil acquired by Gazillion Entertainment... last July

by Kyle Horner Mar 18th 2009 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Jumpgate Evolution, New titles, News items, LEGO Universe

We've got good news that also happens to be a bit strange. Remember that new publisher that's now bringing us the Marvel MMO? Well, it turns out that NetDevil was actually acquired in July 2008 by the newly revealed Gazillion Entertainment. NetDevil's Scott "Scorch" Brown says in his post on the official Jumpgate Evolution forums that the choice was made due to Gazillion's shared view on game development. Specifically, the two companies value lots of focus testing, vertical slice development, iterating until things are great and only releasing games when they are ready.

The strange part is of course the announcement of an acquisition that occured over half a year ago. We're assuming the delay was due to Gazillion wanting to make a big announcement splash, but it's dark business magic like this that make us scratch our heads sometimes.

Is this news and that of Codemaster's chief operating officer unexpectedly departing from the company connected? It's hard to say, but at this point it's anybody's guess as to what's really going on.

Tags: codemasters, gazillion-entertainment, jge, jumpgate, jumpgate-evolution, lego-universe, marvel, marvel-mmo, netdevil, scott-brown