Eleventh Hour Games, the developer and publisher of hack-and-slash action RPG Last Epoch, has announced that it's been acquired by PUBG publisher Krafton for an undisclosed sum.
In an announcement on the official Last Epoch forum, Eleventh Hour founder Judd Cobler, also known as moxjet200, says Krafton was the right choice for his studio because the publisher "shares [Eleventh Hour's] passion for the ARPG genre".
Cobler says the partnership between Eleventh Hour and Krafton will give his studio "the opportunity and resources to execute on [its] goal of creating the very best ARPG in the genre", which is a lofty goal indeed given just how much competition there is in the space.
According to Cobler, he spoke to "dozens of strategics and potential partners" before settling on Krafton, having decided that the partnership will guide Eleventh Hour through "some of the largest upcoming challenges [it will] face as a studio".
This is far from the first acquisition Krafton has made in recent years. Back in August last year, the publisher acquired Tango Gameworks and its Hi-Fi Rush IP following its shutdown at the hands of Microsoft (which, in retrospect, would seemingly prove to be the start of a pattern for...
