{"id":640709,"date":"2023-04-23T18:06:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/focus-entertainment-acquires-train-simulator-studio-dovetail-games\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T23:06:53","slug":"focus-entertainment-acquires-train-simulator-studio-dovetail-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/23\/focus-entertainment-acquires-train-simulator-studio-dovetail-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Entertainment acquires Train Simulator studio Dovetail Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Entertainment All Aboard<\/h2>\n

Publisher Focus Entertainment continues on its journey to grow as a company and as a brand within the market, announcing that it has acquired<\/a> Railsimulator(dot)com, the parent company of train sim studio Dovetail Games.<\/p>\n

The purchase sees Focus secure 100% of all Dovetail Games shares, as well as ownership of the British studio\u2019s niche-but-popular IPs such as Rail Simulator, Train Simulator Classic<\/em>, and Train Sim World<\/em>. The studio itself will continue to run under its own steam (no pun intended) via the current leadership team. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, Focus spoke of its excitement in purchasing the genre-dedicated developer.<\/p>\n

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We are proud to announce the acquisition of Dovetail Games, and pleased to welcome these talented and passionate teams into the Focus Group! https:\/\/t.co\/dd3horzERJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt) April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe like their business model based on fully-owned IPs and creating recurrent revenues from regular content updates to a passionate and committed community of fans,\u201d explains Focus Entertainment CEO Sean Brennan. \u201cDovetail is perfectly aligned with our strategy and is led by a very talented senior management team who are excited about growing the business further.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Dovetail management]\u00a0will keep their distinct culture and way of managing the business for sure, a policy that we have followed with all our past studio acquisitions. We hope we can add value in a number of areas though in order to bring their fantastic games to a wider audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dovetail Games joins Focus\u2019 modest but burgeoning portfolio, which also includes Lords of the Fallen<\/em> developer Deck13, Space Hulk: Deathwing<\/em>\u2018s Streum On Studio, Metal Slug Tactics<\/em>\u2018 Leiker Studio, French studio Douze Dixiemas, and finally the hugely successful, retro-driven outfit Dotemu<\/a>. Focus also has a close relationship with acclaimed studios such as A Plague Tale<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Asobo Studio and Atomic Heart<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Mundfish.<\/p>\n

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Chris Moyse<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Senior Editor – Chris has been playing video games since the 1980s and writing about them since the 1880s. Graduated from Galaxy High with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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All Aboard Publisher Focus Entertainment continues on its journey to grow as a company and as a brand within the market, announcing that it has acquired Railsimulator(dot)com, the parent company of train sim studio Dovetail Games. The purchase sees Focus secure 100% of all Dovetail Games shares, as well as ownership of the British studio\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,22846],"tags":[14293,5096],"class_list":{"0":"post-640709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-focus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-focus"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}