Our latest coverage of Improbable.
The shuffling of studio ownership in the gaming industry continues as Improbable sells Midwinter Entertainment to Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive less than three years after they bought the studio. Midwinter is the second studio that Improbable has sold this year as it shifts its focus away from traditional video game development and towards the creation of their own [...]
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London-based games technology company Improbable announced today that it has acquired ‘Scavengers’ developer, Midwinter Entertainment. According to the press release, the recent acquisition is Imrobable’s first ever acquisition of a fully-established game development studio. “This acquisition is the culmination of a mutually beneficial partnership between Improbable and Midwinter. Midwinter brings to Improbable a high calibre of technical expertise and significant [...]
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SpatialOS launched in 2012 with the mission to “Create Previously Impossible Games”. Improbable’s innovative cloud-based computing platform has given developers the ability to create large, persistent, real-time virtual worlds which can support thousands of players at the same time. The platform is already widely in use by MMOs such as Worlds Adrift, Chronicles of Elyria, and Seed. In an interview [...]
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A few weeks ago, Improbable and Unity got into a dispute over licensing agreements and SpatialOS’s integration with the Unity Engine. A number of developers were affected by the fallout including Bossa Studios and their sandbox game Worlds Adrift. The event prompted Epic Games to team up with Improbable, pledging a boatload of cash to help out developers who were [...]
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Jagex announced today that it has partnered with Improbable in order to use SpatialOS in future game projects. Even just one sentence into this article, I know what you're probably wondering. "Does this have anything to do with the nebulous NextGen leak?" I can hear you ask. The answer is that we don't know. What we do know is that [...]
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The British software studio Improbable has raised $502 million in funding through a Series B financing round led by SoftBank. The young tech firm's core product is the game engine SpatialOS which promises to make it easier for game studios to scale persistent worlds with cloud-based server distribution. What's striking is how bullish the CEO Herman Narula is on the [...]
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