Traveller's Tales have announced the purchase of fellow UK developers Embryonic Studios. Traveller's Tales is responsible for what could arguably be called the most successful use of a movie license ever, the Lego Star Wars series, the second of which is included on countless best of 2006 polls. Incidentally they also developed my favorite Amiga game ever, Leander.

Embryonic was founded in 2005 by Nick Elms, formerly of Warthog and Digital Anvil, and went on to create original IP such as Privateer, Brute Force and Starlancer.

I quote this directly from GamesIndustry.biz because it confuses me to no end. Since Embryonic was founded in 2005, how could they have gone on to create original IP for games created in 1993, 2003, and 2000 respectively? I assume they meant that Nick Elms worked on those projects himself. Odd.

Either way, both studios have done extensive work on licensed games, so expect even more innovative licensed work to come out of the newly extended Traveller's Tales family, hopefully involving Legos. Michael Fahey

Traveller's Tales buys Embryonic

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