Indiana Jones, Terminator and Conan: wishes for upcoming games from the creators of Streets of Rage 4
Indiana Jones, Terminator and Conan: wishes for upcoming games from the creators of Streets of Rage 4
Already under the umbrella of Focus Home Interactive, DotEmu offers a glimpse into its future plans.
DotEmu has starred in one of the latest purchases in the video game industry, with Focus Home Interactive investing up to 38.5 million euros in the acquisition of most of the company’s capital. With this move, the French publisher seeks to accelerate its growth with a growing company, so much so that in a recent interview it has left a glimpse of what they want to do in the coming years.
I would love to make a Conan gameCyrille Imberta“I think it would be interesting to explore classic movies like, I don’t know, Indiana Jones, Terminator … the kinds of things that never had their very cool retro game back in the day. They were always promotional games and they weren’t used to being that good,” he commented. the CEO of DotEmu, Cyrille Imberta, in statements collected by IGN Spain . “And Conan, for example, I love Conan. I would love to make a Conan game.”
In this way, it seems that in DotEmu they have among their next steps to continue exploring large IPs of great success in past decades. And we don’t have to wait long to see how TMNT Shredder’s Revenge will be distributed on PC and consoles in September, a beat’em up with all the aroma of the great classics of the genre, having among its main sources of inspiration Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time.
Video games from the beginning of the century
However, both in this interview and in yesterday’s press release, they made clear their interest in going from the 80s and 90s to releases from the beginning of the 3D century.
“We’ve tackled a lot of games from the 80s and 90s, but there are some games from the early 2000s with early 3D games that have aged quite badly , but they are still amazing games, so I think there is a lot of potential, and we have. Seen with Shadow of the Colossus , Resident Evil , Spyro or whatever, “added Imbert. Now it’s time to wait to discover his next unannounced projects.
DotEmu has just released a DLC for Streets of Rage 4 and has among its closest releases Windjammers 2 , which it develops internally in the company.
