Halcyon Systems buys Driftwave Studios for $1.2B, folds Fracture Point into a new live-service arm
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- Driftwave
Select a year. Driftwave is Halcyon's largest purchase to date and its seventh studio in five years, on a spend that has now passed the price of its own 2021 listing.
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