Why Amplitude chose Sega’s strategy-studio stable

Sega’s acquisition of strategy game house Amplitude Studios on Tuesday set up the publisher’s European arm as a strategy-gaming powerhouse.

The move is interesting because the French-based studio won renown for being one of the best strategy-game developers in the indie scene. It made a splash with Endless Space in 2012, and it followed up this success with the acclaimed Endless Legend. It then branched into role-playing games with Dungeon of the Endless. All along, it continued to hew to its “games2together” philosophy — one that saw the studio work with its fans to craft their games in Early Access, where people can buy and play a game before its official release (and in this case, give the designers a great deal of feedback). With Amplitude, Sega now becomes one of the top publishers of strategy games along with Paradox and Kalypso in Europe.