Chinese internet company NetEase Games has acquired a minority stake in Quantic Dream, the French game studio that created blockbuster games such as Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain.
The investment will shore up Quantic Dream‘s capability to produce interactive storytelling games like Detroit: Become Human, a parable of modern society’s disturbing obsession with making human-like artificial intelligent androids. That game was a PlayStation 4 exclusive that sold more than 3 million copies. But under the deal with NetEase, Quantic Dream will now make games for other platforms too, said David Cage, the cofounder of Quantic Dream, in an exclusive email interview with GamesBeat.
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