Publisher Sega has the Us developer, Three Rings was acquired. The studio is a stand-alone branch within the uitgeefconcern and continues to also focus on the production of free playable pc games.
Sega and Three Rings know each other from Spiral Knights, the free playable mmog that the American studio for the Japanese publisher has made. That cooperation is in accordance with Three Rings-director Daniel James was so pleased that Sega has decided to the studio to take over. Three Rings brought previously under its own flag also free playable Puzzle Pirates on the market.
Three Rings is an independent part of Sega, and remains similar games. This keeps the studio will continue to work on Doctor Who: Worlds in Time, again a free playable mmog, that Three Rings makes in commission from the BBC. About the future plans of the studio late James didn’t. The amount of money with the acquisition is involved, it is also not known.