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This increases with further new additions Park Beyond-Studio Limbic Entertainment is in the top 20 of the largest developers in Germany.
In October 2022, the Japanese video game giant Bandai Namco Entertainment took over the traditional Hessian studio Limbic Entertainment – in June 2023 the first joint project was launched: the theme park management game Park Beyond has been released for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.
In anticipation of further major projects – including the building strategy game with the working title COVE – the workforce at the Limbic headquarters in Langen near Frankfurt Airport is growing. A total of nine additional employees have been hired since the beginning of the year:
- Principal Concept Artist Janine Bertet has at Frankfurter Deck13 Interactive on games like The Surge 2 and The Fallen contributed.
- Communications Lead Matthias Kraut comes from the now closed Munich studio Mimimi Games (Desperados 3, Shadow Gambit: The Crew), where he worked in the same position.
- Senior Writer & Level Designer Martin Hamberger was also employed at Mimimi Games – including as head author of Shadow Tactics and Shadow Gambit.
- Senior Programmer Frieder Mielke As Head of Development, he led the development of Desperados 3 and Shadow Gambit.
- Senior animator Aswarth Sadhu brings his experience as a team member Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage one.
- Several junior positions are also new on board: Alexandre Martí(Gameplay Programmer), Ali Abdat (programmer), Amr Hamed (Game Programmer) and Timo Frischhut (QA tester).
With 110 employees, Limbic Entertainment is now one of the 20 largest game studios in Germany and one of the most important employers in the games industry in the greater Frankfurt area.
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The expansion is made possible not only by the backing of one of the world's largest game manufacturers, but also by government funding: the Federal Ministry of Economics has so far committed more than €2.8 million for the Limbic projects (overview of the largest projects).
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