Haruki Satomi

UK developer Creative Assembly, after a brief dalliance with first-person projects on PlayStation like 2014's Alien: Isolation and the recently cancelled Hyenas, will shift focus back to strategy games and PC. It's likely the last console players will see of the Horsham-based company, at least for the foreseeable future.

An animated Golden Axe series is in the works at Comedy Central, based on the popular Sega video game series of the same name.

Comedy Central has announced a 10-episode animated series based on the classic Sega game Golden Axe.

Sega executives have implied that Super Mario Bros Wonder was responsible for Sonic Superstars selling fewer copies than expected.

The devs at Creative Assembly have had a rough time of it recently. Back in September, the studio was blindsided by the sudden cancellation of its upcoming live-service shooter Hyenas, barely two weeks after it had concluded an open beta and one month after an appearance at Gamescom. The result was layoffs, uncertainty, and now the studio is going to attempt to pivot back to what it knows best: real-time strategy.

UK developer Creative Assembly is going to be returning to its roots and focusing on real-time strategy titles.

Sega has shared that Sonic Superstars didn't meet sales expectations following the game's launch.

Following the cancellation of Hyenas, the studio goes back to its main genre.

Hyenas was first unveiled to be an upcoming PvPvE game that was developed under Creative Assembly. This was a surprising video game reveal as the studio was mainly known for just RTS games. Now, they were able to embark on a new genre for the studio, and the reception seemed rather positive. Hyenas was set in the future, where you were essentially a futuristic pirate seeking valuable loot. Likewise, there were reports that this was a massive budgeted game, but it lacked the creative direction from management. As a result, the game didn’t capture the charm that would make it an appealing title for fans. 

Sonic Superstars launched on October 17. Super Mario Bros. Wonder launched three days later, on October 20. Both 2D platformers went up against each other in an old-school video game rumble that rekindled memories of the Sega versus Nintendo playground battles of the 90s. Well, it seems this time around, there was a clear winner.

UK developer Creative Assembly will refocus on making real-time strategy games following the cancellation of online extraction shooter Hyenas.

Sega has stated that Sonic Superstars didn’t sell as well as it had hoped during its release period.

The Creative Assembly's Hyenas - a sci-fi extraction shooter about robbing Martian billionaires, which Ed deemed "a surprising amount of fun" when he saw it at Gamescom - is no more. Sega have cancelled the forthcoming looter FPS together with several unannounced titles - a stripping-down of the publisher's European business in response to financial losses Sega are blaming partly on Covid.

Sega Sammy has completed its purchase of Angry Birds developer Rovio, officially plunking down a cool $776 million to acquire the company. The deal was first floated back in April, but both companies had to jump through some finalization and regulatory hoops. Sega’s hoping the purchase will give them a stronger foothold in the mobile space, despite the golden days of Angry Birds fandom passing almost 15 years ago.

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Sega has officially completed its acquisition of Angry Birds developer Rovio Entertainment.

Shareholders of Finland's Rovio, creator of the Angry Birds franchise, have overwhelmingly accepted Japanese Sega's offer to buy the company, allowing the deal to go through, the Finnish company said Thursday.