Today, Paradox Interactive has announced the purchase of the study Harebrained Schemeswho recently launched the BattleTech game with Paradox as editor.
Harebrained Schemes will now deal with financial stability and marketing experience
Harebrained Schemes will from now on function as an internal investigation and as a department in the organization Paradox Interactivebut will continue to be guided by its own internal direction and will retain its creative equipment.
The CEO of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester, accompanied the announcement with a statement in which he referred to what the editor and the developer can do together in the long term:
“Harebrained Schemes has proven to be a world-class studio with a very talented team within a generation where Paradox wants to be present. In addition, we really like the study, the people who perform it and its games; all these criteria are very strict for us in any acquisition. Our recent and successful launch of BATTLETECH, our first project together, has been a fantastic collaboration, without limits, the possibilities of what we can do together for a long time, now that we have joined forces, we are really excited about that. ”
Jordan Weisman, CEO of Harebrained Schemes, continued with his own statement, mentioning how the financial stability and marketing experience provided by Paradox will help the team.
“Mitch and I started Harebrained to create the kind of story-filled tactical game that fascinated us, and for the past seven years, our study has been motivated by our team’s passion and the generous support of our fans. Given the scale of our games have grown and the market has become extremely competitive, we feel that HBS had to partner with a company that would give us the financial stability and marketing experience that would allow us to focus on what we wanted to do. : create great games and stories ».
