Nordic Games is really amassing quite the collection of games. I mean, seriously, the list is starting to look like my Steam library, half of it made up of classics and the other half made up of tiny, weird things that I’ve never heard of but somehow own.
On the list of things I’ve never heard of but that Nordic now owns, we have:
Bang Bang Racing
Black Knight Sword
Skydrift
Sine Mora
Imperium Galactica
Imperium Galactica II
Liberty Wings
Ubrain
Scarabeus: Pearls of Nile
You may have a connection to something in that list, but I certainly don’t. A third of that list is made up of iOS titles, with the rest being some Grasshopper Manufacture joints and a mostly-forgotten RTS series. These seem to have all belonged to a Hungarian company called Digital Reality. Their website seems to be down, and I’m guessing the company itself is, too.
Nordic’s biggest acquisition up to this point was a major chunk of THQ’s catalog, including Darksiders, Titan Quest, and Red Faction. They put out Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition last year, which I found fine but completely superfluous. While not every game in their catalog is a certified banger, it’s at least good that somebody is in control of the rights and keeping them available to the public.
One assumes Nordic will continue with their acquisitions, like some legal Pac-Man gobbling up IP pellets. I hear Konami’s getting out of the game business - I could really go for a new Castlevania. Get on that, Nordic.
