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Splash Damage acquires Scum dev Gamepires from Jagex

Splash Damage has acquired Scum developer Gamepires from Runescape developer Jagex, in a transaction backed by Emona Capital. The acquisition was framed as “part of a refreshed strategic direction,” which would combine “Splash Damage’s long-standing multiplayer and first-person shooter expertise…

[Jason Schreier, Bloomberg] Inside the failure of Highguard, which flopped so badly that developer Wildlight laid off most of its staff just two weeks after release | When asked what they thought went wrong, developers used the word "hubris"

Excerpts: Armed with a significant amount of funding from Tencent Holdings Ltd, Wildlight began hiring employees and making plans for its first game. The founders knew they wanted to make another multiplayer shooter, but they hoped to avoid the crowded…