{"id":894971,"date":"2024-06-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/?p=894971"},"modified":"2024-06-26T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:18:31","slug":"infogrames-acquires-surgeon-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2024\/06\/infogrames-acquires-surgeon-simulator","title":{"rendered":"Infogrames acquires Surgeon Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atari publishing label Infogrames has acquired the <em>Surgeon Simulator<\/em> intellectual property from timyBuild, the company announced. <!--more-->\n<p>According to the announcement, Infogrames will seek to expand distribution, potentially develop new titles or content, and explore brand and merchandising collaborations as part of a long-term plan to preserve and expand the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More than 10 years after the release of the original, <em>Surgeon Simulator<\/em> remains a popular and unique franchise,&#8221; said Infogrames manager Geoffroy Chateauvieux im a press release. &#8220;This was a rare opportunity to acquire a game with a timeless appeal, and we are excited to have <em>Surgeon Simulator<\/em> within the Infogrames portfolio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is an overview of the franchise, via Infogrames:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The popular medical operation sim combines first-person transplants, life-saving heroics, and dark humor with unexpected surgical theaters (a moving ambulance, hospital hallways, and even zero-gravity space).<\/p>\n<p>The humorous, over-the-top operation sim began with the release of <em>Surgeon Simulator<\/em> for PC and Mac in 2013. The original was updated with more implausible surgery and ported to mobile and PlayStation 4 in 2014. <em>Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic<\/em> brought the franchise to virtual reality on PlayStation VR and Windows in 2016. The franchise reached the Nintendo Switch in 2018 with <em>Surgeon Simulator CPR<\/em>. A totally new sequel with four-player online cooperative play, <em>Surgeon Simulator 2: Access All Areas<\/em>, reached PC in 2020 and Xbox in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><em>Surgeon Simulator<\/em> is the second casual multiplayer sim added to the portfolio by Infogrames, which acquired the game, trademarks, and underlying property of <em>Totally Reliable Delivery Service<\/em> in April 2024.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari publishing label Infogrames has acquired the Surgeon Simulator intellectual property from timyBuild, the company &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1609],"tags":[70,1382,6089],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Surgeon-Sim-Acquisition_06-26-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894995,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894971\/revisions\/894995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}