Valve Does Shopping: They Acquired The Firewatch Dev Team!

General news News 04/22/2018

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A surprising turn by Gabe Newell – they purchased Campo Santo out of nowhere.

Campo Santo announced on their blog that the twelve-member staff team is now under Valve‘s control, but they will continue developing In the Valley of Gods (which was announced in December) – however, it is going to be labeled as a Valve title from this point.

According to the post, the team loves making games, as well as „making and producing entertainment,” like allowing people to try out one of many Firewatch demos at conventions before it launched in early 2016. In Valve, they found that they feel about their work the same way as Campo Santo does. They also told the readers a story when they visited IGN in early 2015: they found an undelivered Game of the Year award for Portal 2 in 2011, and they stole the bottle of champagne, and with the acquisition, quoting them, „is a return home for us. Well, for that bottle of champagne.”

The regular quarterly reports and the blog posts will stay. Perhaps Gabe Newell already knew about this acquisition when he said that Valve is coming back to making games… and Campo Santo might be just the first of several teams that end up under Valve.

Source: Campo Santo/Valve

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