Funcom Acquires Conan, Mutant Year Zero, dozens of IPs

<p>Funcom has announced the acquisition of Cabinet Group&period; This includes the acquisition of a variety of popular intellectual properties including&comma; but not limited to&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;conan-exiles&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><em>Conan the Barbarian<&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; <em>Mutant Year Zero<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Solomon Kane&period;<&sol;em> Fredrik Malberg&comma; the co-founder of Cabinet Games&comma; worked with Funcom on <em>Age of Conan&colon; Hyborian Adventures&period; <&sol;em>As a result&comma; The relationship between the two companies began in the early 2000s&period;<em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Heroic Signatures&comma; a Funcom subsidiary&comma; now includes Cabinet Group&&num;8217&semi;s entire portfolio&period; The CEO&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;rcasais&quest;lang&equals;en" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Rui Casais&comma;<&sol;a> has hinted at an important project in development&period; Regarding the game&comma; Casais has said that it will &&num;8220&semi;combine many of the characters in the Robert E&period; Howard universe&period;&&num;8221&semi; Given Funcom&&num;8217&semi;s background in games and Heroic Signature&&num;8217&semi;s experience in licensing&comma; Casais claims optimism regarding the future of this unannounced project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-173454 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;09&sol;15125721&sol;sflapn0biorvzgvnlneq&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Funcom acquires Mutant Year Zero" width&equals;"2046" height&equals;"1149" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The current president of Cabinet Group&comma; Fredrik Malmberg&comma; remains involved&period; However&comma; he is now the President of Heroic Signatures&period; Malmberg has worked on revitalizing several IPs&comma; including <em>Conan<&sol;em>&period; His work in licensing is largely credited for the renewed interest in the story&period; Currently&comma; Marvel entertainment publishes a new Conan comic every month and there is also a Netflix series in development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Malmberg is optimistic about the future of Conan&comma; stating&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve seen brilliant examples of how games have incorporated IPs in innocate ways&period;&&num;8221&semi; For instance&comma; he mentions the affect of the Fortnight&sol;Avengers cross-over or the inclusion of online concerts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;