Google acquires Canadian game studio Typhoon Studios for Stadia

Google acquires Canadian game studio Typhoon Studios. The studio will become part of Stadia Games and Entertainment. The game the studio is working on, Journey to the Savage Planet, is slated for a January multi-platform release.

Typhoon Studios was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal. The studio’s team will become part of Google’s Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in Montreal after the acquisition. The founders of Typhoon Studios are Reid Schneider, a former producer at Electronic Arts and Alex Hutchinson, who was a creative director at Ubisoft in the past, working on Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed 3.

They will be led at Stadia Games by Sébastien Puel, who also has a past at Ubisoft: he worked as a producer on Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Black Flag, among others. The acquisition is reported by Jade Raymond, who heads Stadia Games & Entertainment. In 2004 she was a producer at Ubisoft Montreal at the cradle of Assassin’s Creed.

It is not known which games Typhoon Studios will make for Stadia. The studio has announced a single game, Journey to the Savage Planet. It will be released on January 28 for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One.