Chapter 323 about those things about the dunes
Jester stayed in New York for four days before returning to California. Although this trip was a bit tired, it finally brought them closer to Samsung. Although he was the second shareholder of Samsung before, he seemed to be just a symbolic existence to Samsung, or Samsung, and there was no way to effectively connect the two. To outsiders, he seemed to have nothing to do with Samsung at all.
This is not what Jester wants. According to his current status and status, he is low-key and no longer belongs to him.
Just after Jester returned to Costa Mesa, after reading the report on Carnival, he looked at the information about other companies' games recently released by his distribution company. His Fengxing distribution company is not only publishing his own games, nor is it just publishing games on Dreambox, but many PC games are also released. Of course, according to theory, even if it is a FC or Nes game, Fengxing distribution can be released without worries, but the problem is that Jester doesn't care, Nintendo cares.
So, as of now, there is no FC game manufacturer that comes to them to release games.
“This company…”
Just as Jester was reading this report, a game with very failed sales was reflected in his drill. The company that made this game was not very famous, and he had never heard of it. However, he was indeed extremely familiar with this game. This company is a French company called cryo-interactive. The name is meaningless. Jester is too lazy to even watch it.
But the name of the game that followed the company deeply attracted his attention.
"dune"!
This game should not be forgotten for any rts enthusiast or Ximu fans. This is the beginning of rts and the beginning of Ximu's glory. Of course, this game now has nothing to do with Ximu.
As far as Jester knows, this game has changed from a very famous movie called "Dune Castle". Now the game adaptation rights of this movie are in the hands of Weizhen Entertainment. This dryo-interactive from France is an OEM company of Weizhen Entertainment. Many game companies will outsource them when they can't finish the resources they have. As for the level of the outsourcing company, they will definitely do some investigations before, but the investigations are sometimes not so satisfactory.
For example, this time.
In fact, in this game production company in France, before it was finished, Weizhen Entertainment discovered something wrong. They found that this time the French company made it into a solidified mind, faithful to the restoration of the plot to the point where it was jealous and unresponsive, and this was a turn-based battle flag adventure game without any fun. Just as Weizhen was considering whether to terminate the contract, the French company obviously knew that something was wrong, so they immediately put on light and cut corners. They spent all the development funds and completed the game in advance.
So this hot potato fell into the hands of Weizhen Entertainment.
Just throw it into the trash can. Weizhen is still very reluctant to let it go. After all, he has invested a lot of development funds. However, it seems that the issuance must not be able to sell any good results. But at this time, Fengxing Entertainment wanted Weizhen to port several of their classic PC games to Dreambox. Weizhen is also jealous of Dreambox, a market that is far larger than PC.
But after all, this is a new challenge for them. Although transplanting games doesn't cost much, if they fail, it will still be a huge blow to passionate designers like Weizhen, which will give them the idea of whether we are really not suitable to develop games on home computer platforms. This is something Weizhen doesn't want to see.
Therefore, Weizhen made a request to Fengxing release to help them release this turn-based war chess adventure game called "Dune".
Although the people who released Fengxing also saw that this game had no future, they agreed after considering it again and again in order to win over Weizhen, a powerful game development company. Jester read the report on this game. He had expected it before. Although he had lost money, it was not much.
At this time, Jester naturally recalled some memories of this game.
He is not a fan of Ximu, but he is full of respect for Ximu, the game studio, not only because they have created a truly great game type, but also because of their talent. Many people seem to think that they only have Dune Ii, only Command and Conquest, and only Red Alert. In fact, they have made a series of masterpieces between Dune Ii and Command and Conquest.
But perhaps because of the low sales, many people who are not fans of Ximutu are not very familiar with their game series. In fact, if even in the future, players in 2015 do not care about the resolution, this game is definitely worth playing. It can be said without hesitation that this is a masterpiece, and the name of this game is called "Legend of Kailadia".
Jester felt a little far away and immediately took back his thoughts.
There are so many memories of Ximutu, and all kinds of information and information filled his mind, making him not know how to figure it out for a moment. However, what he can be sure of is that the current studio is still very small and almost not worth mentioning. Although the three founders have great ambitions, they do not follow their wishes. At least so far, they have been established for more than three years and have not yet had a game that they can make their debut.
Jester called and asked, and soon got the detailed information of the company. The founder Jester was very familiar with it, so Te just glanced at it, almost as he knew, and didn't care much, but saw the ownership directly. Fortunately, the small game studio now has not attracted anyone's attention, at least it has not attracted the attention of Weizhen Entertainment.
In Jester's memory, Ximutu made the magic adventure game "Morning Eyes" in the past two years. After its reputation has soared, it was only popular with Weizhen Entertainment. Now they are just countless people who don't know if they can have a member of tomorrow's small studio, who cares about them.
We joined Weizhen back then. They obtained the game copyright of "Dune Castle" and then produced the world's first real RTS game, allowing PC to truly enter a game era that belongs to PC. From beginning to end, real-time strategy is exclusive to PC players. This is a great achievement worthy of pride and even worthy of the 100-year praise from fans of Ximutou.
Even Blizzard and Blizzard fans who later unified the RTS world have to admit that without Ximu's "Dune 2", it would be impossible for the first work of the Warcraft series that made Blizzard take off later, "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans", it can be said that the beginning of the Blizzard legendary road is closely related to Ximu.
Of course, nothing is absolute. For example, Jester, a unique figure in the world's electronic gaming industry, is interested in this little-known studio.
After dialing an assistant's phone number, Jester issued the order directly.
"You guys go and contact this company called Westwood in Las Vegas, and are you willing to sell it... Well, yes, full acquisition."
After saying that, Jester hung up the phone, then let out a breath, and stood up from the seat.
There are many memories about Ximutu. This is why he decided to acquire them without saying a word after seeing this name. Because he knew the talent of this studio, and now they have been struggling for three or four years, and have experience, skills, and talent, not to mention the success of the next one is a natural thing.
If Jester was not wrong in anticipation, Ximu should be in preparation for the game "Morning Eyes" in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
In fact, there are still many memories about Ximu and their real-time strategy. For example, the classic soundtrack "Eastern March" is based on the neat and regular sound, and every time you hear it, it makes Jester's blood boil.
For example, "Blue Alert" introduced by unscrupulous manufacturers later, Jester remembers the most profoundly. It is actually the work of a small studio called cypro-studios in Czechoslovakia. It has no skills or capabilities. Moreover, the name of this game is "state-of-war". However, because it must be Ximu's "Red Alert" is too popular in China, countless manufacturers have translated this game with great vision into "Blue Alert".
That's fine, the most ridiculous thing is still behind. Later, the Czechoslovak company launched an expansion pack, and then the domestic unscrupulous manufacturer translated the expansion pack into "Blue Alert ii". This is not the end. The most important thing is that the game company once again released the real sow2 in 2007, and then domestic manufacturers introduced it again...
Translated into "Blue Alert 3".
The most important thing is that domestic translators are still very consistent. Later, when a website translated "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood", they translated it into "Assassin's Creed 3: Brotherhood"...
It is understandable if the player makes such a mistake. After all, he doesn’t know anything about the industry. However, as a professional game website, he can still make such low-level mistakes. That one can really be modified with one word.
Chapter completed!