Funcom newly owns Conana and other interesting brands -apkrig

The Norwegian company Funcom, which was recently bought by the Chinese Tencent, controlled the Conan brand and other IPs. She bought the Cabinet Group, which also owns the rights to the Mutant series (you know the Mutant Year Zero for sure), the character Solomon Kane and other works created by Robert E. Howard. At the same time, they plan to move everything under the roof of the new Heroic Signatures studio, and of course this will be reflected in the portfolio of games that Funcom is releasing in the future. But not only on them.

The entire Cabinet Group brand portfolio will be transferred to Heroic Signatures as a subsidiary of Funcom. Funcom boss Rui Casais said he has big plans for the brands and at least one unannounced project is already under development. According to him, Funcom is overseeing the development of an unannounced title, which will combine various characters from the space of Robert E. Howard. So it will obviously be a crossover.

Co-founder and head of Cabinet Group Fredrik Malmberg will remain at the helm as president of Heroic Signatures. According to him, they got the company as far as possible in an independent study, but in order to achieve further growth, they needed more investment and infrastructure. Thanks to him, Conan is said to be at the peak of popularity again, and in addition to games, comics are also being created and a series for Netflix is ​​being prepared.

According to Malmberg, he is very pleased with the connection with Funcom, with which he has collaborated since the development of the MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The game was released in 2008 and of course it was not Funcom’s only trip to this world. He made his Conan Exiles debut in 2018, and the previous year’s Conan Unconquered strategy from Petroglyph.

Other studies and especially Duna

Fredrik Malmberg in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz magazine stated that Conan made him their crown jewel, but they have up to 50 characters that they can use. Apparently we see the first fruit that Tencent’s recent investment has brought. This has already affected the expansion of the team. In June this year, Funcom announced that it had bought a majority stake in the Swedish studio The Outsiders, and plans to open a new studio in Romania.

At the same time, we must not forget that Funcom is working on new games from the world of Dune. At least one of them is already being born, the others can be licensed by the company to other companies. You can read more about Dune’s comeback in the world of video games in our older articles.

The spices must flow

Arrakis – Dune – Desert planet. With these words, young Paul was preparing for his greatest adventure in his life in the breathtaking novel by the American writer Frank Herbert. Later, a series of books and a very sophisticated universe were created, which is unlike any other science fiction vision. If we consider board and card games and unlicensed projects or mods, we have only gone a few times in video games on Dun. For the first time in the adventure of the same name with elements of strategy from 1992 from the Cryo studio. In the same year, in Westwood’s iconic real-time strategy Dune II, in 1998 in her remake of Dune 2000 and in 2001 in a sequel called Emperor: Battle for Dune. The TV series was inspired by the not very positively received 3D adventure Frank Herbert’s Dune from 2001. Finally, the online game Dune Generations by Cry was canceled to the great regret of fans before its completion, and with it the whole team disappeared.