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Blizzard Acquires Swingin' Ape Studios

Posted by Zonk on from the more-monkeys-are-always-welcome dept.

Gamasutra.com has the news that well known development house Blizzard has acquired Swingin' Ape Studios, the company currently working on the StarCraft:Ghost console title. From the article: "The acquisition of Swingin' Ape Studios takes us one step closer to realizing our goal of becoming a top-tier console developer...With Swingin' Ape's talented designers, programmers, and artists, we're confident we'll be able to create console games that meet the quality standards we've established for every Blizzard title."

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  1. who cares any more? by boomerny · · Score: 4, Informative

    I lost interest in this title long ago. When I first read that Blizzard was doing a console game I thought Great! Finally a developer is going to do RTS proper for my Xbox. Then I found out it was going to be some 3rd or 1st person, stealth-action type thing and they started to lose me. I wish they would have stuck to their bread-and-butter and figured out a way to bring the original Starcraft experience to the consoles. Maybe Bungie will do us all a favor and reimagine Myth for Xbox.

    1. Re:who cares any more? by bobgoatcheese · · Score: 3, Informative

      Maybe Bungie will do us all a favor and reimagine Myth for Xbox.

      Sorry, but Bungie lost the rights to the Myth franchise to Take 2 when they were bought by Microsoft, and good luck getting those guys to do anything worthwhile. View Myth III for evidence.

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  2. metal arms: glitch in the system by cycledance · · Score: 3, Informative

    metal arms is swingin apes first game and its really good. it came out on gamecube, xbox and ps2 in 2003. a sleeper hit. i suggest u check it out. cheap and easy to find. the companys aquisition is proof for the studios talent to make great games.