BigPark Inc., a two-year-old Vancouver online video game company, will be bought by U.S. computer software giant Microsoft, the American company announced Thursday.
Microsoft, in a statement, said the Canadian video game maker will be integrated with Microsoft Game Studios, based in Redmond, Wash., “where the team will continue development on an exclusive Xbox 360 game.”
Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed.
In an interview, BigPark CEO Hanno Lemke said the company will retain all of its 50 employees, and continue to work out of Vancouver under the BigPark name.
“Our goal is to continue on in our current growth plan, which sees us growing over the next number of years,” Lemke said. “We are hiring, but we really want to remain a boutique developer . . . . The plan is to be disciplined and measured in our growth.”
Lemke co-founded BigPark in June 2007 with Wil Mozell, Erik Kiss and Don Mattrick, the former president of Electronic Arts Worldwide who left to become senior vice-president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business.
BigPark has been working with Microsoft for the past year on a new title, details of which will be announced next month at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.
“We are delighted by the opportunity to welcome the BigPark team,” Microsoft Game Studios general manager Phil Spencer said in a statement.
0 comments:
Post a Comment