Intel acquires Offset

According to the official site, Intel has bought up the cats behind Project Offset. Not much on the site other than...

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Today we have some major news to announce.

Intel has acquired Offset Software. Yes, you read it correctly!

Project Offset is going strong and we are excited about things to come.

Stay tuned.

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Nothing terribly earth shattering, but I can't recall another chip maker ever buying a game dev company. It seems a bit odd, for Intel, to even want a dev. What benefit would they even gain from it?

They've never developed a game though. yet anyway

Just saying. But Intel is getting into the higher-end graphics chip business. They could use some tech demos or an engine that really works well on their chipset...

Meh, so much for being the champions of indie. I think it's pretty amazing what these guys have done with such a tiny team.

Oh that's right. They're merging with/acquiring Nvidia or some such thing, aren't they? Still seems weird to me. I mean, like you said, Offset doesn't have much in the way of experience it seems, and besides, they could just pay someone for a tech demo.

Maybe they'll just have them create breathtakingly beautiful games with no depth at each new chip sets release.

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Originally Posted by EightBit

Oh that's right. They're merging with/acquiring Nvidia or some such thing, aren't they? Still seems weird to me. I mean, like you said, Offset doesn't have much in the way of experience it seems, and besides, they could just pay someone for a tech demo.

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This is just silly to write of a powerful development suite as a "tech demo." It's an engine with a very powerful set of tools, and even if the game sucks I'm sure you can appreciate why they'd want a piece of the technology. If they bought the rights to Unreal Engine or something you wouldn't be scratching your head.