THQ Nordic acquires German animation studio metricminds

Cinematics, cutscenes, trailers, facial animations and motion capture for THQ Nordic games will now be produced by metricminds.

The acquisition of metricminds by THQ Nordic, a subsidiary of Embracer Group, includes a small team of professionals in the film, television and video game industries. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, metricminds has worked on several AAA titles such as Guerrilla Games’ Horizon, Techland’s Dying Light, Gearbox Software’s Borderlands, Deck13 Interactive’s The Surge, Turtle Rock Studios’ Evolve, Warner’s Batman Arkham Origins Bros. Games Montreal, Darksiders 3 by Gunfire Games or Destroy All Humans remakes! by Black Forest Games.

Although it has already been completed, the amount of the operation remains unknown.

Catch & Release, the only game of the metric mind

In 2018, metricminds embarked on a virtual reality adventure with Catch & Release for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality.