Outdated Faculty RuneScape studio Jagex acquires Scum dev Gamepires

Outdated Faculty RuneScape studio Jagex could also be greatest recognized for his or her basic MMORPG, however it has simply acquired the studio behind gritty survival journey SCUM.

Should you’re an avid Scum fan, that is excellent news for you. In keeping with the related press launch “Gamepires’ and Jagex’s community-driven method will allow Scum to understand its full potential with a multi-platform 1.0 launch sooner or later.”

Jagex will even make use of its hive thoughts on all issues community-driven to make sure that Scum thrives post-release. Jagex CEO Phil Mansell states “we imagine within the imaginative and prescient of Tomislav, Andrej and their gifted workforce who’ve constructed a powerful open world survival recreation, cultivated a extremely engaged neighborhood and grown a powerful worthwhile enterprise.

“With our backing and the help of our Jagex Companions publishing workforce, collectively we are going to make Scum a good better international success.”

Artistic director and co-founder of Gamepires Tomislav Pongrac echoes this. “Partnering with Jagex offers us the chance to take Scum to the subsequent stage,” he states. “Jagex’s world-class repute as an organization the place gamers drive recreation growth matches our ethos and can assist us develop as entrepreneurs and as a studio.

“We’re extraordinarily excited to see how we are able to construct on all the things we’ve achieved with Scum up to now and take the sport to its full potential.”

For these unaware, Scum sees gamers thrust into the guise of prisoners, left alone on an island desperately trying to find an escape. Set in Gamepires’ native Croatia, teams of as much as 80 gamers battle for survival on the island, whereas concurrently attempting to take away the implant stopping their escape.

Launched in 2018 the sport has offered properly over three million copies, and has develop into a staple in Steam’s Prime 100. Provided that Scum is a very totally different recreation from Outdated Faculty RuneScape, I can’t wait to see what the studios obtain collectively.

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