Dark Horse Comics recently revealed Dark Horse Games (“DHG”), its new gaming and digital division. DHG’s mission is to create unique experiences both through close licensing partnerships with the industry’s best game makers and its own in-house, first-party titles. Over the company’s history, Dark Horse has published such world-renowned IPs as Hellboy, Frank Miller’s Sin City, 300, Umbrella Academy, Polar, Lady Killer, Emily the Strange, Usagi Yojimbo, Resident Alien, and many more.
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Dark Horse Comics founder and President Mike Richardson commented on the announcement saying:
“We’ve spent the past thirty-five years developing a long list of original, fan-favorite IP with many of the best partners in digital entertainment. Now is the perfect time to expand our vision into gaming. Dark Horse Games gives us exciting new ways to engage with fans of all kinds on a multitude of platforms.”
Dark Horse Games General Manager Johnny B. Lee:
“Dark Horse Comics sits at the intersection of consumer entertainment, production and publishing. We’re one of the few companies that own IP nimble enough to execute coordinated strategies across multiple platforms, and that’s a huge advantage in gaming and digital.”
Dark Horse Games is currently in discussions with some of the world’s top gaming studios to create AAA licensed titles based on its vast library to be released over the next several years across all platforms, including PC, consoles, mobile and cloud-based services. Meanwhile, DHG’s first-party games will focus on refreshing older and less established IPs as gaming first IPs. DHG will also produce and release multimedia projects (e.g. webtoons and anime) in conjunction with the first-party games. The division is in active discussions with the world’s top game co-development studios and content production studios, with the first of these in-house projects already in production.
Source: press release
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