Lucid Video games has been purchased by Tencent – WGB, Dwelling of AWESOME Evaluations

Gobble, Gobble. That’s the sound that Chinese language mega-company Tencent presumably made because it snapped up Lucid Video games, absorbing it into considered one of its a number of subsidiaries. On this particular case, the subsidiary is LightSpeed Studios that describes its imaginative and prescient as being “To create the Lightspeed Universe, the ecosystem that connects gamers and builders around the globe.”

As for Lucid Video games, the final recreation the studio developed was Destruction Allstars, a Ps unique vehicular fight recreation that launched in 2021. It was initially going to be a $70 title, however after being delayed Sony introduced it might be given away free of charge to PlayStation Plus subscribers for the primary two months of its lifespan as a substitute. It didn’t precisely do very effectively, and I used to be pretty underwhelmed by it, sadly, however did assume it had some potential.

Whereas Destruction AllStars might not have completed very effectively, many individuals did speculate that Sony may be concerned with shopping for Lucid Video games, particularly as Lucid was linked to the upcoming Twisted Metallic reboot, which has allegedly been moved over to Sony’s newly-acquired Firesprite.

However Lucid have additionally completed fairly a little bit of assist work. Lucid’s personal recreation web page states the corporate has completed assist work for the likes of Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, Sea of Thieves and Apex Legends. Maybe Tencent intends on deploying them in a assist function for future titles.

On a extra private degree, its all the time a disgrace to see any studio being purchased. In an ideal world I’d choose to see them stay impartial, however that is clearly not an ideal world. On this imperfect world, I’d a lot somewhat Sony purchased Lucid as a substitute of Tencent, a behemoth of an organization that has many ties to the problematic and ceaselessly horrifying Chinese language Communist Half. The larger Tencent will get, the extra affect can exert over our video games.