Schon immer war die Zusammenarbeit zwischen VALVe und den Turtle Rock Studios sehr eng. Mit der kompletten Übernahem durch VALVe geht man jetzt einen Schritt weiter.
Diverse Maps und Features für die Spiele der Counter-Strike-Reihe stammen aus den Händen des im Orange County beheimateten Studios. Derzeit arbeitet man dort mit Hochdruck an dem auf der erweitereten Source - Engine basierenden CoOp-Shooter Left 4 Dead.
Turtle Rock-Gründer Michael Booth, VALVe-Gründer Gabe Newell und Marketing-Manager Doug Lombardi begrüssen in der Pressemeldung enthusiastisch die Übernahme.
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VALVE ACQUIRES TURTLE ROCK STUDIOS
Leading Content and Technology Company Adds California Studio
January 10, 2008 - Fresh off the success of The Orange Box, the 2007 game of the year award-winning collection of new games heralded as “the best value in gaming history,” Valve Corporation announces the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the Orange County-based development house behind one of 2008s most anticipated games, Left 4 Dead. Valve was founded in 1996 and has grown to become one of the game industrys leading technology and content creators, with a portfolio of over 20 million games sold worldwide. The merger of the two companies extends Valves development team and provides the company with a new studio in southern California. Turtle Rock Studios Left 4 Dead joins a growing list of Valves game properties which includes the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat series of games as well as Portal, introduced as part of The Orange Box. "We have been seeing very strong growth with Steam and Source, our content distribution and development platforms, up over 150% over the last 12 months. Given our expectations for Left 4 Dead and our long-standing relationships with members of the Turtle Rock team, this was an easy decision. It also gives us a base from which to expand our development activities in the Los Angeles area," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "Left 4 Dead fills a long-standing demand gamers have had for a coop first-person action experience, and it will also help Valves expansion into the console market,” added Doug Lombardi, Valves VP of marketing. "Valve has had great success bringing in projects and teams such as Team Fortress and Portal. As I spent time working and talking with the creators of those products over the past several years, it became clear that this was the right next step for myself, my colleagues at Turtle Rock, our customers, and our products," said Michael Booth, founder and CEO of Turtle Rock Studios. "We are excited to be a part of such a visionary and forward-thinking company." Founded in 2002 by Michael Booth, Turtle Rock Studios is the creator of Left 4 Dead, named one 2008s most wanted titles by many of today`s leading game-enthusiast publications and Web sites.
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