Funcom this week announced that it has fully acquired Cabinet Group, which held a number of different intellectual properties like Conan the Barbarian and Mutant Year Zero. The company is set to merge all of the acquired IPs into the IP studio Heroic Signatures, and Funcom is working on some kind of video game featuring several characters from the worlds of Robert E. Howard.
Notably, Funcom previously worked with Cabinet Group for years to license Conan the Barbarian for several video games like Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Conan Exiles. As such, it is not terribly surprising that Funcom should acquire it. Even so, Cabinet Group previously licensed Conan the Barbarian, for example elsewhere with Marvel publishing comics and Netflix working on a series. From the way the press release announcing the acquisition reads, it seems like those deals will continue under new…
