Neon Giant AB is a Swedish

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headquartered in Uppsala,

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. 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 independent venture by former AAA 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

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, 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 '' Bulletstorm'', '' Far Cry 3'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Doom''. On June 28, 2018, Neon Giant were recipients of one of 37 developers grants offered by

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to promising developers working with Unreal Engine 4. 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, ''

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''. It is a cyberpunk 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 announced that it planned to acquire Neon Giant. On December 14, 2022, they were being acquired by Krafton for un undisclosed sum.

Games developed

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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