Escape from Tarkov Developer Battlestate Games Launches Publishing Division
Battlestate Games is formalizing its philosophy of backing extreme, hardcore projects into a publishing arm that actively solicits games other publishers would pass on.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Battlestate Games announced the establishment of Battlestate Games Publishing on September 4 and began soliciting projects. The Escape from Tarkov developer says it built the hardcore FPS from ideas others rejected as too harsh or too eccentric, and now wants to support similar projects from other developers, with genre not limited to FPS.
Battlestate Games is entering the publishing business under the new label Battlestate Games Publishing. The company, headed by Nikita Buyanov, made the announcement on September 4 and has begun accepting project submissions from developers.
The stated pitch is direct: the studio claims it built Escape from Tarkov from ideas that everyone rejected as too much, too slow, too harsh, or too eccentric. It now wants to do the same for other people's games, calling for hardcore projects that publishers would pass on because they are too niche, too brutal, or too unappealing to the masses. The genre does not matter, and the company is not looking for safe proposals. It says projects do not need to be polished, only backed by conviction.
The move follows other developers entering publishing. Pocketpair established Pocketpair Publishing, and thatgamecompany recently announced thatgamepublisher. Battlestate Games continues development on Escape from Tarkov, which released officially last November after roughly a decade in beta, with Season 2 planned for December.
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