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A new publisher, Gameplay Group, is buying the rights to cancelled games in an effort to finish their development. Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 19:33:36 Id: d66e1a No. 1838305
Them's Fightin' Herds and Diesel Legacy are among them. https://archive.ph/bkQqV https://thegameplaygroup.com I was going to post this in minor news, but though it was interesting enough for a thread. Earlier they prematurely launched their games page, which has since been taken down, but it showed the aforementioned games along with others. Something about GG is it seems very different to other publishers, both in presentation and what they do. I feel this is ultimately a doomed company from the get go, but an original idea. Would (you) have any hopes for them?
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 19:35:21 Id: d66e1a No. 1838312
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Just want to say their mascots are also adorable
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 19:45:38 Id: 895b15 No. 1838342
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<snippet referencing Stop Killing Games Man I wonder how Ross feels about his direct impact on the industry, shortly before it launched I remember he discussed his fear that he was delusional with the campaign >Would (you) have any hopes for them? I demand the 5 cancelled Deus Ex games find a home, but that looks out of scope for these guys.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 19:48:32 Id: 589c20 No. 1838351
>>1838305 >Would (you) have any hopes for them? This REALLY depends on how much cash theyre willing to throw away to get the rights and how competent and knowledgable the developers are of these games
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 20:05:54 Id: 586e23 No. 1838394
They're going to gay the games. Just like everyone else.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 20:15:40 Id: 4b9142 No. 1838422
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>>1838305 Neat idea, but from the top of my head I can't come up with any cancelled games I'd care about. Unless they also would include games that are in the void and stagnating, not cancelled just nothing is being done with them. I would like to see someone do fucking something with Thief, but wrangling Thief out of Eidos that does nothing with the IP would be impossible. The game only lives thanks to modding and fan missions.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 20:31:55 Id: 54f89d No. 1838451
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>>1838305 I assume these are the guys named
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 20:35:39 Id: d66e1a No. 1838462
>>1838451 It sounds like they were out of the industry for a long time to work in film, and came back to setup a publisher.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 20:50:51 Id: 86fc34 No. 1838516
>>1838305 I hope they succeed with Thems Fightin' Herds? It was a really fun game that was canned before it was able to truly shine.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:15:20 Id: 53a93d No. 1838593
Best of luck to them
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:23:19 Id: efd4c0 No. 1838616
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So the idea is to revive dead games, be it cancelled or just got their plug pulled. I like the concept, but I don't see what games they could pull from publishers or other groups. On one hand, it could be Prey 2, on the other, we might end up with a Concord rerelease.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:39:21 Id: 203157 No. 1838659
>>1838342 Kerbal Space Program 2 is WAY outside their scope, too. Life By You, the Sims competitor that Paradox cancelled one week before it was supposed to launch, might be easier for them.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:47:22 Id: aa4394 No. 1838684
>>1838659 I'm convinced Life by You would make Cities Skylines 2 look stable.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:49:59 Id: 0e1a87 No. 1838691
this is giving me the same resonance as Embracer/private equity acquiring is a bunch of crap
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 21:53:26 Id: 589c20 No. 1838699
>>1838616 Maybe they could get something from the companies who are buying ea, since it seems like itll be sliced and diced specifically for ip rights
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 22:21:21 Id: 5a9a33 No. 1838776
>>1838305 >Them's Fightin' Herds I already want to see them go bankrupt.
Anonymous 10/11/2025 (Sat) 22:36:42 Id: f33d71 No. 1838834
>>1838462 >to work in film Confirmed marxists then.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 00:09:10 Id: 17f1bb No. 1839045
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>>1838776 Hey buddy yiff
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 01:22:15 Id: 17f1bb No. 1839266
>>1839117 Don’t just correct my gif. REPLY TO MY POST
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 02:26:17 Id: ccad88 No. 1839405
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>>1839266 OK. Do you prefer ♂ or ♀ eevolutions?
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 02:54:32 Id: 5a9a33 No. 1839448
>>1839045 I fear it more as a potential revival of bronies than it being just more furry crap.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 03:51:33 Id: 407b77 No. 1839537
>>1838616 I hope they make Haze 2.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 05:09:36 Id: 866925 No. 1839631
>>1839117 >>1839405 female duh.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 08:17:30 Id: 4ce41d No. 1839928
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>>1838305 HOLY SHIT, are we finally gonna have Final Fantasy Versus XIII???
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 09:18:40 Id: efd4c0 No. 1839995
>>1839928 I heavily doubt that Square Enix would trust a baka gaijin with Versus XIII. Shit, I don't think they trust themselves for this one.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 14:47:10 Id: ef97f5 No. 1840490
>>1838684 Or maybe they can finish the AI military module for Project Reagan and we can finally get that Cold War successor game to Hearts of Iron. Seriously, I played the leaked Project Reagan and it works fine except for any AI decisions. Insta-crash by turning that on, so you have to manually do… EVERYTHING. From military maneuvers to factory construction, production, and distribution.
Anonymous 10/12/2025 (Sun) 17:01:42 Id: 5a9a33 No. 1840806
>>1839995 Have you seen current day Squeenix? >I don't think they trust themselves for this one What, you just started playing Squares games? They almost went bankrupt on three separate occasions for stupid shit; it's totally within the realm of possibility that they tell Crapcom to hold their beer.
Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 00:58:41 Id: dd95a6 No. 1841989
>>1838305 >finishing cancelled games Isn't that just Piko Interactive's business model?
Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 06:35:41 Id: 06244a No. 1842611
>>1840806 You are implying that someone at Square can make good decisions. They can't. The moment some idea is good for the company, the whole company turns away from that idea. Square is composed of tired old men addicted to gambling, and some tired old literal faggots. Both hate work, hate effort, hate having to obey customers and hate video games.
Anonymous 10/13/2025 (Mon) 15:33:12 Id: 76f6a7 No. 1843512
>>1838305 Not sure if a model like this is sustainable, a lot of games are cancelled for a good reason
Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 01:42:40 Id: 7a8d1d No. 1844736
>>1843512 While true, it looks like they're taking games that were cancelled for less than ideal reasons. Far as I can tell, Them's Fightin' Herds was shitcanned because the publishers were shitheads and got cold feet right around the time money was being pulled out of the industry in late 2023, also there was a lot of mergers and consolidation going around at their publisher's parent which probably added to the fuckery.
Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 01:47:19 Id: cfe417 No. 1844743
>>1841989 No, Piko Interactive buys licenses for ancient retro shit and rereleases it.
Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 13:02:21 Id: 76f6a7 No. 1846096
>>1844736 Sounds better, hope it turns out alright
Anonymous 10/14/2025 (Tue) 20:40:04 Id: d2e870 No. 1846968
>>1838305 I hope they do good work, but I have zero expectations for them until they actually release something. Until then, it's more likely that they're going to gay the games or just not do a good job finishing them. Also >>1838691 is a strong point that they could turn out to be greedy bastards or later get bought out by greedy bastards. I'd be much more confident if they were promising to release the games under open licenses so that even if they fuck things up, the game is still better off because of the acquisition.
Anonymous 10/15/2025 (Wed) 11:59:57 Id: 564c25 No. 1848501
>>1838305 Starting with two fighting game is already not an especially strong move, there's simply not enough willing audience to support them financially, but I do hope they make some good stuff, need more publishers willing to not go for the easiest money possible everytime.
Anonymous 10/16/2025 (Thu) 02:24:05 Id: 5c97c1 No. 1850177
>>1838659 >Life By You That game was supposedly an absolute disaster. I assume Gameplay wants to revive games with the chance of being a commercial success.
Anonymous 10/17/2025 (Fri) 02:12:10 Id: a9d885 No. 1852616
Hope they revive Scalebound
Anonymous 10/17/2025 (Fri) 02:21:11 Id: e90d1e No. 1852637
>>1852616 That would be a huge project and this group appears more interested in small teams that already had an advanced build.
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