Sperasoft partners with Relic Entertainment
USA, San-Jose – November 26, 2019 – Sperasoft, a Keywords studio announces its partnership with Relic Entertainment, an innovator in the real-time strategy genre.
Relic Entertainment is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver. For over 20 years they have specialized in award-winning real-time strategy games, and are known around the world for franchises such as Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and the upcoming Age of Empires IV. When working on these games, Relic uses its proprietary Essence Engine, developed in-house. The Essence Engine utilizes the Havok middleware physics engine and enables many next-generation features to help push their titles forward. Relic’s desire to innovate in the real-time strategy genre has led to numerous awards and accolades, and they’re bringing that same innovation to their next title, Age of Empires IV.
Being part of SEGA, Relic Entertainment strives to create rich, thoughtful strategy games that people love to play. Working in cooperation for over a year, Sperasoft provides art services for Relic and is regarded as a trustworthy and flexible partner.
Sperasoft is an old hand at game development, showing the studio’s true colors in its work with partners and clients, providing all the necessary resources and completing tasks of any complexity on time. Such a foundation allows us to build long-term relationships with our co-development partners.
“Sperasoft is a big fan of Relic Entertainments games and the RTS genre as a whole” – comments Denis Larkin, Chief Commercial Officer at Sperasoft – “it has allowed us to quickly find a rapport and hopefully, successfully gratify RTS fans everywhere”.
“Relic is excited to work with a trusted partner who shares our values of meaningful collaboration, transparency, creative problem solving, and learning from the experts around us.” – Heidi Eaves, Chief Operating Officer at Relic
About Sperasoft
Sperasoft is a leading game development company headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley with development centers in the USA, Poland and Russia. We offer full development capabilities with comprehensive professional teams that are built upon the best producers, engineers, game designers and artists in the industry. During 15 years of existence, Sperasoft studio has not only grown to 500 people and has opened 5 offices around the world, but also moved to a new level of cooperation with customers – becoming a co-developer of the world’s most famous publishers.
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About Relic Entertainment
Relic Entertainment is the award-winning development studio behind critically-acclaimed franchises including Warhammer 40:000: Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, and more. Since its inception in 1997, Relic has produced a rich catalogue of genre-defining real-time strategy titles and continues to innovate today as a SEGA-owned studio. Relic is located in Vancouver, Canada. Learn more at www.relic.com
About SEGA Europe Ltd.
SEGA Europe Ltd. is the European Distribution arm of Tokyo, Japan-based SEGA Games Co., Ltd., and a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. The company develops and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. SEGA Europe’s website is located at www.sega.com