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Portsmouth-based Climax Studios, one of the UK’s longest-running game development studios, has been acquired by Keyword Studios, one of the industry’s key service providers.
Keywords acquisitions have become a regular feature of our news coverage for many year, initially the company centred on acquiring service provider such art houses, QA, audio and even PR firms.
However, it has also now taken on a significant number of end-to-end game development providers, with Climax Studios joining the likes of d3t, Studio Gobo, Electric Square and Wizcorp, among others.
Even then Climax Studios, which has been running for 33 years, is a major investment with 109 staff led by CEO Simon Gardner. The studio has worked on titles such as Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Crackdown 3 and Returnal, out next week on PS5.
MPI Artists, a Dublin-based music agency founded by Martin Nolan, couldn’t be accused of trying to Lay Low.
The Irish agency’s Julian O’Brien and MPI Artists’ USA partner Nabil Ghebre have brokered a five-year deal for US rapper Snoop Dogg’s touring rights outside of the US and Canada. The deal was signed with worldwide event producer and venue operator TEG MJR and its CEO Richard Buck.
O’Brien, MPI and TEG are set to work together touring Snoop internationally for the next five years. O’Brien and Ghebre will work with Robert Dreislen, AKA Bobby D, and Uncle Snoop’s Army throughout the five-year term as Snoop’s international agents.