The workers of Typhoon Studios, the developer behind Journey to the Savage Planet, are reforming below the title Raccoon Logic. In an announcement, the group says that they’re “to boldly go back to where they were before,” Google’s doomed acquisition of the corporate. Raccoon Logic has additionally revealed that the group has reacquired the rights to Savage Planet, enabling them to “hit the ground running on new adventures in the action adventure space.”

Typhoon was based in 2017 by a bunch of Montreal-based sport executives, together with Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson and Arkham Knight govt producer Reid Schneider. Their first title was Journey to the Savage Planet, a satirical sci-fi sport for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch first launched January 2020.

In 2019, Typhoon was acquired by Google as a part of its push to amass first-party content material for its nascent Stadia streaming service. Sadly, in early 2021, Google’s notoriously impatient management determined to vary technique, closing its first occasion video games division and firing the staff.

That determination would, within the quick time period, show problematic, as Journey to the Savage Planet skilled some game-breaking bugs that Google needed to race to work out learn how to repair. And left the way forward for each the Savage Planet franchise and the careers of these Typhoon staffers within the stability.

In a press release, Raccoon Logic says that it has obtained a “pivotal investment” from Tencent which is able to bankroll its as-yet unannounced debut undertaking. Alex Hutchinson says that Tencent’s backing is a “huge boost, meaning we can do significant work on our own before we start talking to publishers.” Reid Schneider, in the meantime, thanks 505 Games, which printed Savage Planet, and added that he’s planning to “build upon the Journey to the Savage Planet franchise in the future.”