All Aboard
Publisher Focus Entertainment continues on its journey to grow as a company and as 🦹a brand within the market, Railsimulator(dot)com, the parent comp♋any of train sim studio Dovetail Games.
The purchase sees Focus secure 100% of all Dovetail Games shares, as well as ownership of the British studio’s niche-but-popular IPs such as Rail Simulator, Train Simulator Classic, and Train Sim World. The studio itself will continue to run under its own steam (no pun intended) vi♏a the current leadership teamꦏ. , Focus spoke of its excitement in purchasing the genre-dedicated developer.
We are proud to announce the acquisition of Dovetail G꧅ames, and pleased to welcome these talented and passionate teams into the Focus Group!
— Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt)
“We like their business model based on fully-owned IPs and creating recurrent revenues from regular content updates to a passionate and committed community of fans,” explains Focus Entertainment CEO Sean Brennan. “Dovetail is perfectly aligned with our strategy and is led by a very talented senior management team who are excited about growing the business further.”
“[Dovetail management] will keep their distinct culture and way of managing the business for sure, a policy that we have followed with all our past studio acquisitions. We hope we can add value in a number of areas though in order to bring their fantastic games to a wider audience.”
Dovetail Games joins Focus’ modest but burgeoning portfolio, which also includes Lords of the Fallen developer Deck13, Space Hulk: Deathwing‘s Streum On Studio, Metal Slug Tactics‘ Leiker Studio, French studio Douze Dixiemas, and finally the hugely successful, retro-driven outfit Dotemu. Focus also has a close relationship with acclaimed studios such as A Plague Tale‘s Asobo Studio and Atomic Heart‘s Mundfish.
Published: Apr 21, 2023 12:00 pm