Krafton, the writer behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol, has acquired Tango Gameworks, the studio answerable for The Evil Inside video games and Hello-Fi Rush. Tango was shuttered by Microsoft and ZeniMax Media in Could, however the expertise who shaped the Tokyo-based studio will probably be built-in into Krafton, which now owns the rights to Hello-Fi Rush.
In a information launch, Krafton stated it “intends to collaborate with Xbox and ZeniMax to make sure a clean transition and preserve continuity at Tango Gameworks, permitting the proficient group to proceed creating the Hello-Fi Rush IP and discover future tasks.” Krafton added that it “intends to help the Tango Gameworks group to proceed its dedication to innovation and delivering contemporary and thrilling experiences for followers.”
The transfer from Microsoft to Krafton is not going to impression Tango’s present recreation catalog, which incorporates The Evil Inside, The Evil Inside 2, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and the unique Hello-Fi Rush, the writer stated. Hello-Fi Rush is on the market on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.
Tango Gameworks was based in 2010 by Shinji Mikami. The studio’s first launch, The Evil Inside, was a survival horror recreation within the vein of Mikami’s work at Capcom, the place he had overseen survival horror video games Resident Evil, Dino Disaster, and Resident Evil 4 as recreation director. Tango Gameworks turned a part of Xbox’s secure of studios when ZeniMax was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. Mikami left Tango in 2023.
The studio discovered nice essential success with Hello-Fi Rush in 2023. The rhythm-action recreation was a shock launch by means of Microsoft’s Sport Cross subscription, and markedly completely different from the darkish and violent video games Tango Gameworks had come to be identified for.
Krafton’s announcement comes simply days after former builders from Arkane Austin, which labored on video games Prey and Dishonored, introduced a brand new first-person motion RPG at its Wolfeye Studio.
Microsoft introduced in Could that it deliberate to shut three studios underneath the Bethesda Softworks umbrella: Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Mighty Doom developer Alpha Canine Studios, and Tango Gameworks. A fourth studio, Roundhouse Video games, had its employees reassigned to different duties.
