In March last year, Sega sold Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Developers Relic Entertainment during a wider “restructuring”, “equalization” and release at the Sonic house. New corporate partners Relic is a holding company founded by the British investment company Emon Capital LLP – an agreement that apparently allows them to act like an independent studio, although I am blurred in moving parts.
I was pleased to hear that Relic had avoided closing. I am still glad that they create more strategic games – a mix of recovery projects, vast fresh games and smaller productions with a faster return.
All this from a compact conversation with Game creatorin which the CEO Justin Dowdeswell talks about the bright highlands. Relic will continue to support its existing games, such as Heroes 3 2023. They will also work on projects on a similar scale and complexity, perhaps covering remasters or releases for older relics. There is a hanging carrot of alterations that “capture the spirit of the originals”, but through consistency they take some freedoms with the basics. The choice that older religious games will be, as you can expect, will be a “multifactorial process” of haggling with external partners.
And then there is a prospect of smaller relics, which in the paraphrase game creators will allow programmers to “discover new genres and experiences”. Renica’s hope is to develop and ship in less than two years.
“We want to act with smaller teams on shorter time frames, which means that probably getting a game on the market at a thicker distance of 1-2 years,” dowdeswell explained. “Budget costs will vary depending on the scope, but these titles will have a much smaller budget than the great RTS games that we will continue to work on.”
Relic Turn to the staff After SEGA sales, but Dowdeswell insists that the company is currently “much better”. I think their fingers crossed that everything was spreading. Although they are currently a different band, I still have a relic as the creator of the original home, saying nothing about Dawn of War, and their last things were quite good: Katharine (RPS in Peace) entitled Company of Heroes 3 “glorious return”.
