Bigben’s acquisition of Spiders weaves a web of Double-A ambition

Last month, Bigben Interactive made an intriguing acquisition: Spiders, a French studio that specializes in action-role-playing games. It’s just another move behind the French company’s ambition to become a leader in the Double-A publishing market.

This started with its own internal expansion, followed by the acquisitions of Cyanide (and with it, Big Bad Wolf), Eko Software, and Kylotonn last year. In an interview with Game Industry.biz in May 2018, Bigben head of publishing Benoît Clerc said that he wanted to put out “12 and 15 games every year, and have up to half of those be developed internally.”