NetEase Games has acquired French workplace and Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls, and Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, the institution announced.

As the Chinese company’s archetypal workplace successful Europe, Quantic Dream volition proceed to run independently, focusing connected creating and publishing games for each platforms, arsenic good arsenic supporting and publishing third-party-developed titles, portion besides leveraging NetEase’s crippled improvement capabilities.

“We are thrilled to embark connected an breathtaking caller signifier of maturation with Quantic Dream, bound by our shared vision, communal spot and respect,” said NetEase CEO and manager William Ding successful a property release. “NetEase volition proceed to fulfil our committedness to enactment Quantic Dream to realise its afloat potential. By combining the chaotic creativity and exceptional communicative absorption of Quantic Dream with NetEase’s almighty facilities, resources and execution capabilities, we judge determination are infinite possibilities that could re-define the interactive amusement acquisition we supply for players worldwide.”

Quantic Dream founder, CEO, and writer-director David Cage added, “Today marks an important milestone for our workplace aft a 4th period of implicit independence. NetEase Games values our originative state and the thrust and passionateness of our uniquely divers team. We volition present beryllium capable to accelerate the imaginativeness we stock arsenic a group, of creating landmark titles that interaction radical connected an affectional level. We person highly differentiated games successful the making and I genuinely judge that the champion is yet to travel from Quantic Dream. I americium peculiarly arrogant that our employees, who were offered a important stock of our superior implicit the past years, volition afloat payment from this acquisition. It is simply a grounds to our continued committedness to reward each those who person made Quantic Dream the palmy workplace it is today.”

Quantic Dream co-CEO and caput of publishing Guillaume de Fondaumiere said, “NetEase Games archetypal invested successful Quantic Dream 3 years ago. Over this period, we had the accidental to enactment intimately unneurotic and saw first-hand however like-minded and complementary we are. NetEase Games’ acquisition comes arsenic a earthy improvement successful this process and creates a unsocial accidental to boost Quantic Dream’s maturation by giving our accumulation and publishing teams each the indispensable means to excel.”

Quantic Dream is presently processing Star Wars Eclipse for unannounced platforms.