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402:, around December 2019, shortly after they negotiated an extension to complete work on the game, Take-Two wanted to acquire Star Theory but Berry and Mavor did not like the terms of the deal, so Take-Two instead established Intercept Games and offered all Star Theory staff a position there, while Berry and Mavor encouraged the staff to stay with Star Theory. By February about twelve of the 30 staff had moved to Take-Two, and 27: 384:, but Take-Two acquired the rights to the series in 2017, helping Squad to publish and meet their commitments to their players before handing over the intellectual property. Private Division opted to bring in Star Theory, a larger team but with similar capabilities, to work in parallel to develop the sequel while assisting Squad with the original game. 253:, which set up a new studio and hired a large portion of Star Theory's staff in December 2019 to continue the game's development, before Star Theory and its remaining staff became unable to secure new publishing agreements as a result of the 391:
there; along with this, members of Star Theory, including creative director Nate Simpson and studio head Jeremy Ables, had joined with this new studio, leaving Star Theory's role in the game unclear. According to
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On March 31, 2014, Uber Entertainment announced PlayFab as a spinout to continue development of their UberNet back-end gaming service. On January 29, 2018 PlayFab was acquired by
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However, Take-Two announced it had created a new studio within Private Division in February 2020, later named Intercept Games, and had transferred development duties of
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contract was pulled from them by Take-Two. The remaining staff had planned to prepare prototypes and have material ready to present to publishers at the March 2020
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2.2 million in funds. The original retail release was slated for December 2013, but was postponed, with the game expected "to be feature-complete in early 2014."
374:, the car-share company; Simpson noted that Uber had previously gotten permission from them to use the "Uber" name before, which they had granted. The original 746: 796: 1033: 954: 243:, in 2010 to positive reviews. The company assumed the name Star Theory Games in 2019. It wound down in March 2020 after the contract for its game 898: 639: 870: 822: 723: 844: 537: 346: 327: 270: 147: 927:"Kerbal Space Program 2's new devs on adding interstellar flight, colonies and more to the PC's greatest space sim" 546: 407: 331: 667: 466: 179: 750: 274: 154: 356:, Uber Entertainment announced it had changed its name to Star Theory Games, and was working with publisher 370:. Creative director Nate Simpson said that the name change was due to their prior name being confused with 600: 513: 366: 342: 335: 293: 245: 186: 45: 341:
On August 17, 2018, Planetary Annihilation Inc was founded to continue development and publishing of the
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Uber Entertainment was founded by Bob Berry and Jonathan Mavor in March 2008 in
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On October 2, 2014, Uber Entertainment announced a new
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Private
Video games
Dissolved
Bellevue, Washington
president
CTO
Monday Night Combat
Super Monday Night Combat
Planetary Annihilation
startheory.com
video game developer
Bellevue, Washington
Monday Night Combat
Kerbal Space Program 2
Private Division
COVID-19 pandemic
Bellevue, Washington
president
chief technology officer
Kickstarter
crowdfunding
real-time strategy
Planetary Annihilation
US$
Microsoft
Kickstarter
real-time strategy
Planetary Annihilation: Titans
stand-alone expansion

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