Sega buys Amplitude Studios and its hit Endless strategy-game series

Sega is already a big player on the strategy-game scene thanks to The Creative Assembly, the makers of the Total War franchise, and Relic Entertainment with its Warhammer: Dawn of War and Company of Heroes series. Today, it added another award-winning studio to its stable.

The Japanese publisher’s Sega Europe subsidiary has acquired Amplitude Studios, the makers of Endless Space, Endless Legend, and Dungeon of the Endless. The Paris-based PC game developer has garnered a reputation for incorporating player feedback into its development process, which it calls “Games Together.” Sega will also handle publishing duties for Endless Space 2, a 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) strategy game that should hit Steam Early Access this year.