Blue Mammoth Games, the relatively small studio behind hit free-to-play fighting game Brawlhalla, has been acquired by mega publisher Ubisoft. According to the press release, Blue Mammoth Games is made up of just 21 team members, so Ubisoft's certainly going for quality over quantity here.
It's an interesting story because these days the French company is all about online, service-based games, and with Brawlhalla, Blue Mammoth has proven that it's got a real understanding of how to keep players engaged over time. After all, Brawlhalla is currently one of the PlayStation 4's most successful free-to-play titles, and it's been going strong over on PC for years.
“We’re looking forward to leveraging Ubisoft’s expertise and resources to continue developing and supporting Brawlhalla for the long term, and to benefiting from their help in bringing the game to new players," a statement from Blue Mammoth founders Matthew Woomer and Lincoln Hamilton reads.
We're certainly looking forward to seeing what the developer can do now that it's backed by such a giant.
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They recently bought a mobile developer, too. Ubisoft expanding!
It will be fun to see Ubisoft heroes on the game
Never play this on PS4 after playing it for years on PC. It's a great fun little game perfect for short play times. Never paid a cent for it though, curious how Ubi will monetize it or just keep it as it is. A Brawlhalla sequel with Ubi characters would be better than PSASBR no doubt.
I used to love Popcap games, the original PvZ and Peggle are some of my favorite family games on PC, but they were never the same after EA purchased them. 😯
I hope ubisoft make more ubiart games like in the beginning of this generation, child of light is one of my favorite "indies" games this gen, the graphics and music on that game is so nice.
This game is fun but it lacks something! It's a bit janky in some animations and ways attacks hit, still fun so I'd imagine this is a good buy
@rjejr Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown was pretty good, but to be fair I think the game was almost finished when EA purchased Popcap Games. I do recommend the FF2:SS as it's a fantastic game, especially during multiplayer sessions!
@rjejr Dude, Ubisoft Smash Bros would be pretty alright. They have the roster to be able to do it.
-Rayman, Rabbid
-Ezio, Altair
-the Prince of Persia
-Thermite
-Marcus Holloway
-Jade
@ReanSchwarzer7 That's so funny, my kids have been pestering me for weeks to re-install Feeding Frenzy 2. We actually own it on disc on PS3, or PS4 I forget, but they grew up playing tons of fun/bad PC games on Gametap, BigFishGames and a couple of those other websites I forget. Actually I think Gametap was more like old games, BigFishGames the newer stuff, back before they all moved to mobile. Now if I could only figure out how to find them a PC copy.
Well that was nuts, BF is still active, my password worked, from 2009, and my games are still there. Only FF isn't one of them.
Found 2 accounts on GameHouse, 5 games each, still no FF. Guess it wasn't meant to be.
Also tried RealArcade but that got folded into Gamehouse, and Reflexive, but they seem gone too. I actually might have purchased ti from the Popcap website itself, they had such a thing back then, but it too is gone after EA bought them.
I downloaded a copy from TUCOWS (that was a big thing way back when) but it was the 60 minute version.
Guess my kids will have to live with their Switch, PS4 and PSVR headset.
@Arminillo Yeah, Ubi may be making some weird bad broken games of late but they certainly have a roster to make a fighting game. People have been asking for Rayman in Smash for years. Well except the fanboi purists, but the sane people. UBrawl, UbiFight. They'll think of something.
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