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Limbic Entertainment

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Not to be confused withLimbic Software.
Limbic Entertainment GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded19 September 2002;22 years ago(2002-09-19)
Founders
  • Stephan Winter
  • Eike Radunz
  • Alexander Frey
Headquarters
Langen
,
Germany
Key people
Stephan Winter (managing director)[1]
ProductsTropico 6
OwnerBandai Namco Europe(majority stake)[2]
Number of employees
110[3](2024)
Websitelimbic-entertainment.de

Limbic Entertainment GmbHis a Germanvideo game developerbased inLangen.The studio was founded in 2002.

Company details

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The company was founded on 19 September 2002, by Stephan Winter, Eike Radunz and Alexander Frey and has about 50 employees. They developed the tenth installment in theMight and Magicvideo game series,Might & Magic X: Legacy,forUbisoft.Also for Ubisoft, they developedMight & Magic Heroes VIin collaboration withBlack Hole EntertainmentandVirtuos.In August 2014, Ubisoft announced that it would produceMight & Magic Heroes VIIin cooperation with Limbic Entertainment.[4][5][6]

Limbic Entertainment focuses on game design and programming. Other jobs, as for example graphics, are usually outsourced (in case ofMight and Magic X: Legacythey collaborated with Ubisoft Chengdu and Liquid Development).[7][8][9]The three founders of the company are former employees ofSunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software,a company that published games likeAnno 1602,Anno 1503,andAnno 1701.On 11 April 2007,Ubisofthad acquiredSunflowers.

During the development ofMight & Magic X: Legacy,the developers wrote a blog post[10]in cooperation with the publisher, where they presented the game and discussed game features. This "OpenDev" phase lasted from August 2013 (release of game Beta containing Act I) until the game's release in January 2014. Two months after Might and Magic X: Legacy release, on 27 March 2014 (together with last patch) the developer announced on game pages end of support for the game.[11]

In October 2016 Ubisoft announced the end of partnership with Limbic.[12]

In June 2017Kalypsoand Limbic announced that they would cooperate on the release of Tropico 6 scheduled for a 2018 release on PC, Linux, MacOS, PS4 and Xbox One.[13]Since then the release date has been pushed to early 2019.[14]As of 2022, the company employs 80 people.[15]

Bandai Namco Holdingsacquired a minority stake in Limbic in February 2021[16]and became majority stakeholder in October 2022.[17]

Games

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Year Title Publisher(s) Platforms
2011 Might & Magic Heroes VI Ubisoft Microsoft Windows
2014 Might & Magic X: Legacy Ubisoft Microsoft Windows,OS X
2015 Might & Magic Heroes VII Ubisoft Microsoft Windows
2018 Memories of Mars 505 Games Microsoft Windows
2019 Tropico 6 Kalypso Media Microsoft Windows,Linux,MacOS,PlayStation 4,Xbox One
2023 Park Beyond Bandai Namco Entertainment Microsoft Windows,PlayStation 5,Xbox Series X/S

References

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  1. ^Fröhlich, Petra (23 February 2021)."Bandai Namco Entertainment beteiligt sich an Limbic Entertainment"[Bandai Namco Entertainment takes stake in Limbic Entertainment].GamesWirtschaft(in German).Retrieved26 February2021.
  2. ^"Bandai Namco Europe takes majority stake in Limbic".GamesIndustry.biz.2022-10-06.Retrieved2022-10-06.
  3. ^Fröhlich, Petra (15 August 2024)."Die größten Games-Studios in Deutschland 2024"[The largest game studios in Germany in 2024].GamesWirtschaft(in German).Archivedfrom the original on 15 August 2024.Retrieved15 August2024.
  4. ^"HOMMage: Might & Magic Heroes VII Announced - Rock, Paper, Shotgun".Rock Paper Shotgun.13 August 2014.
  5. ^"Might & Magic Heroes VII announced, Limbic to develop".IncGamers.13 August 2014.
  6. ^"You Can Help Decide The Fate Of The Newly Announced Might & Magic Heroes VII".GameInformer.Archived fromthe originalon August 15, 2014.
  7. ^"Limbic Entertainment".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-08-19.
  8. ^"Might & Magic X: Legacy Karthal - Screenshots and Art » Lightning Gaming News".Lightning Gaming News.12 January 2014.
  9. ^Limbic Administrator."Limbic Entertainment".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-08-19.
  10. ^"Open Dev - News".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-11-13.
  11. ^"MMX, The End of a Chapter. - Latest news - Might & Magic x Legacy".
  12. ^"Ubisoft cuts ties with Might & Magic dev Limbic Entertainment".5 October 2016.
  13. ^"El Presidente returns in Tropico 6".Kalypso Media Blog.2017-06-27.Retrieved2017-08-28.
  14. ^"El Presidente Reveals 2019 Release Date for Tropico 6".Kalypso Media Site News.2018-08-16.Retrieved2018-08-19.
  15. ^Fröhlich, Petra (13 April 2021)."Die größten Games-Studios in Deutschland 2021"[The largest game studios in Germany in 2021].GamesWirtschaft(in German).Retrieved16 April2021.
  16. ^Batchelor, James (23 February 2021)."Bandai Namco take minority stake in Might & Magic dev Limbic Entertainment".GamesIndustry.biz.Retrieved23 February2021.
  17. ^Romano, Sal (6 October 2022)."Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe acquires majority stake in Limbic Entertainment".Retrieved11 January2023.

Official website

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