Ori, Armello, OlliOlli Devs sign publishing agreements with private division


Outer Worlds publisher Private Division has announced that it has signed agreements to publish new games from Moon Studios (Ori & the Blind Forest), Roll7 (OlliOlli) and League of Geeks (Armello). Details about the games are scarce: Moon Studios game will be a “compelling action RPG”, League of Geeks will announce a new IP, and Roll7 will take “the next leap forward in its mission to create amazing and fluid games” .

However, don’t expect to play any of these games too soon – none of the studios have formally announced the projects, and the first one won’t arrive until fiscal year 2022 from parent company Take-Two.

All new games are in early development, and announcements about each project will come “in the future.” No specific platforms have been announced at this time.“Developing the Ori series over the past decade has been a fantastic experience for our team, and we are delighted to be targeting even more with a new action role-playing game,” Moon co-founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol said in a statement. . Press release. “We attribute our success to the ‘iterative polishing’ process we use at Moon Studios, and continue that style of development to create a new game that exceeds everything we’ve created so far.”

Private Division was created by Take-Two as an editorial label for independent developers. So far, he has published The Outer Worlds, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, and Disintegration, as well as republishing the Kerbal Space Program.

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