How Scopely's acquisition of FoxNext led to Boundless opportunity
The FoxNext team has been through a lot. Established in 2017 to be the new video games division for TV and film giant Fox, the studio was sold (along with its entire parent company) to even larger TV and film giant Disney in 2019. Disney had made a very public pivot away from internal game development a few years earlier, so it was not terribly surprising when FoxNext was sold again in January of 2020 to its third (and current) parent company, Scopely. Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Scopely president of games (and former FoxNext GM) Amir Rahimi talks about how the team dealt with the turmo...