TheyвЂ™re doing action and turn-based titles. And Rock Factory in Montreal, so three studios. They did The Council, and theyвЂ™re working on Vampire the Masquerade, a new game that will unfold another chapter in that world to create this very specific new genre that they call the narrative RPG. This is three studios: one in Paris, one in Bordeaux, Big Bad Wolf, which is specializing in role-playing narrative titles. TheyвЂ™re currently working on our biggest project by far, which is the next Test Drive Unlimited game. TheyвЂ™re doing off-road racing with WRC (World Championship Rally), and theyвЂ™re doing two-wheel racing with Isle of Man TT. The first company is KT Racing, Kylotonn. IвЂ™ll give you the company names and studios they have. Those are eight teams with some passion and some expertise in some fields. All of the studios have an identity and some specificities when it comes to the games that theyвЂ™re able and willing to develop. One of the companies, RaceWard in Italy, we have a stake in the company that we could raise in the months and years to come to have a majority. GamesBeat: The acquisitions you made in 20, was that the ramp leading to this?Д¬lerc: We bought five companies. We think that with the next generation of consoles thatвЂ™s ready to come out, with the cloud, which is also the next big step technologically and industrially and business-wise for our industry, and the digitalization, which IвЂ™m not teaching you anything - that weвЂ™re leading as an industry now, this was the right time for us also to go bigger, in order to occupy a position at this critical moment in our market history. We have the workforce, the knowledge, the position, the studios now, everything we need, the muscles, if I may say so, and the brain also, to fuel an ambition that weвЂ™ve voiced publicly, which is to become one of the leading midsize publishers in our industry in the three-to-five years to come.ДЄnd the other reason, maybe, to mention the most important ones, is external. First, an internal one: We as a company, as a publishing business unit, and an accessory business unit - IвЂ™ll elaborate on that part later on - but Nacon is gathering those two activities for reasons that I will explain. GamesBeat: Why go public now with Bigben/Nacon? Why is the timing good for this?Д«enoit Clerc: This is a conjunction of several parameters. This is an edited transcript of our interview. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

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