Neon Giant AB is a Swedish video game developer headquartered in

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, Sweden. It was founded by Tor Frick, Arcade Berg, Jonathan Heckley and Erik Gloersen in 2018.

History

Neon Giant was founded in April 2018 as an

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venture by former

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employee game developers; Tor Frick, Arcade Berg, Jonathan Heckley and Erik Gloersen. With the support of investor company Goodbye Kansas (now known as Amplifier Game Invest), Neon Giant received an initial investment of 1,000,000 kr (approximately $110,000). Upon investing in the company, Amplifier Game Invest CEO, Per-Arne Luundberg said — "Neon Giant consists of a real dream team that not only has enormous experience, they also have an incredibly efficient working process —I'm convinced that their first release will be a milestone in Swedish game development". The founders had previously worked on popular games such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Gears of War'', '' Wolfenstein'' and ''Doom''. On June 28, 2018, Neon Giant were recipients of one of 37 developers grants offered by Epic Games to promising developers working with

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. They were awarded between $5000 and $50,000 based on their work on an unannounced title "set in a brand new cyberpunk world". In May 2020, Neon Giant announced their debut game, '' The Ascent''. It is a

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themed action-roleplaying game which was released on 29 July 2021. The Neon Giant team consists of 11 people. On November 11, 2022, South Korean video game publisher

Krafton Krafton Inc. ( ko, 주식회사 컴퍼니 크래프톤) is a South Korean video game holding company based in Bundang-gu, Seongnam. It was created in November 2018 to serve as the parent company for Bluehole, founded by Chang-Byung-gyu in Seoul ...

announced that it planned to acquire Neon Giant. On December 14, 2022, they were being acquired by

for un undisclosed sum.

Games developed

References

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* {{Embracer Group Swedish companies established in 2018 Video game companies established in 2018 Video game companies of Sweden Video game development companies Uppsala Companies based in Uppsala County 2022 mergers and acquisitions