Epic Games is acquiring Tonic Games Group, parent company of Mediatonic (Fall Guys dev)

[poklane]

Via Jason's twitter account:

BREAKING: Epic Games is buying Fall Guys developer Mediatonic, Olga Kharif and I have learned. Story hitting shortly

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Edit: note that they're not just acquiring Mediatonic, but Mediatonic's parent company Tonic Games Group which also includes Irregular Corporation and Fortitude Games.

 

[purseowner]

Worst timeline.

 

[Deleted member 887]

Good for them.

 

[Ryan.]

Can't wait for Fall Guys to be removed from Steam in a year.

 

[Raigor]

Are they envy because Fall guys used Unity?

 

[Yinyangfooey]

Oof, I better buy Fall Guys on Steam before Epic delists it lol

 

[Moara]

get that paycheck

 

[DrFunk]

Can't wait for Fall Guys to be removed from Steam in a year.

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*Six months

 

[Hamster Plugin]

Incoming $15 skins. They ruined Rocket League.

 

[Smokeymicpot]

Good for them on getting paid.

 

[RedHeat]

GET THAT MONEY

 

[Aveis]

Guess its going f2p at some point now

 

[Mattmo831]

Usually I'm an anti epic person

But this is a good acquisition. They needed more developers. More constant updates. And this will probably do just that. Also cross platform via epic accounts and cross progression

 

[Weebos]

Sounds like a big win for the Fall Guys team, congrats to them.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Congrats to Mediatonic. Hopefully it works out for them.

 

[ILikeFeet]

and Fall Guys is made with Unity, lol

 

[Zor]

What about Devolver?

 

[Duxxy3]

Worst timeline.

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Could be worse...

"Epic Games is acquiring Konami with the sole purpose of using the characters as skins."

 

[Mass_Pincup]

Consolidation everywhere.

It's also important to not that with just EGS, Fall Guys would never have been a success. Hope the Steam version will be fine long term.

 

[NekoNeko]

Cool

 

[7thFloor]

Glad I'm not interested in Fall Guys.

 

[Streusel]

Fall Guys isn't coming to gamepass because it's going free to play

 

[Jarrod38]

Worst timeline.

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Why?

 

[RayCharlizard]

Fall Guys coming soon as your free EGS game of the week. I'd switch from PS5 to PC in a heartbeat if they have cross-progression in the future.

 

[Sabin]

Oof, I better buy Fall Guys on Steam before Epic delists it lol

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Won't be huge loss to Steam tbh. Fall Guys playerbase fell of a cliff after the big hype and barely goes over 10k nowadays.

 

[Vault]

hasn't the game already died off?

 

[Thwomp]

more microtransactions for kids

 

[Bradbatross]

Makes sense. I have no clue if Fall Guys is still doing big numbers or how long it's going to last though.

 

[madridi-gh]

Makes sense for the developer. cash out while you're at the top. It'll be hard to replicate Fall Guys success

 

[Strittles]

I'd like to see what the devs could do with a bigger budget and backing. Hope it works out well for them.

 

[Matzpxl]

Already confirmed lol

 

[Dest]

oof

 

[Prine]

Good get for Epic and their GaaS empire I guess. Could be pretty big when they do Fortnite, FG cross over.

Not going to change things for consoles.

 

[Deleted member 5491]

Official

 

[Shryke]

Damn that sucks but then again the game's hype is over.

 

[Vash63]

Funny how they are always saving these indie devs with games no one has ever heard of that definitely couldn't find success on other platforms.

 

[Guymelef]

Too late? Nobody remember Fall Guys.

 

[Nocturnowl]

Merger by numbers

 

[Gentlemen]

Why?

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because platform wars are more important than a development house getting rewarded for their hard work.

 

[Raigor]

What about Devolver?

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Devolver does not have the cash for a bit acquisition like this.

 

[Shard Shinjuku]

DO they own the Fall Guys IP and are they also going to buy out the publishing contract that Devolver has?

 

[PSOreo]

Fuck sake

 

[Xando]

7 months too late

 

[EnlightenedMint]

Will be interesting see the future of Fall Guys, game certainly fell off a lot after a massive launch.

 

[nsilvias]

Edit: nvm

 

[Morten88]

isent it abit too late for this? It seems like fall guys is pretty much dead now

 

[Kaswa101]

Wow everyone is being acquired lol

 

[Zor]

Devolver does not have the cash for a bit acquisition like this.

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Nah, I meant regarding Fall Guys, but I guess Mediatonic owns the IP?

 

[ZeoVGM]

isent it abit too late for this? It seems like fall guys is pretty much dead now

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Well, it's not.

 

[Dogui]

Probably means it will be free on Epic Store, right?