Nintendo makes a rare acquisition, scoops up 'Luigi's Mansion 3' maker Next Level Games
Nintendo makes a rare acquisition, scoops up ‘Luigi’s Mansion 3’ maker Next Level Games January 5, 2021 at 5:37 pm Next Level Games, based in Vancouver, B.C., launched in 2002. The company had already announced in 2014 that it planned to work exclusively with Nintendo from that point forward, and had only been working on games featuring Nintendo’s intellectual property, like 2013’s Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, for a couple of years before that point. This made it a rare “second-party” developer in the games industry, where a nominally independent studio makes exclusive games f...