Epic Games acquires Rock Band developer Harmonix

Ballsy Games is acquiring Rock Band developer Harmonix, as announced on Tuesday. This follows prior acquisitions past Epic Games, such as Fall Guys development team Mediatonic. Founded in 1995, Harmonix is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has worked on games like Rock Band, Trip the light fantastic Cardinal and more recently Fuser.

"Our team will piece of work with Ballsy to create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite. While nosotros're non ready to share any specifics, the whole team is incredibly excited to get started," the team writes in the annunciation web log. The buy price of the acquisition was not announced. Harmonix was previously owned by media conglomerate Viacom before being sold off in 2022.

Harmonix as well confirmed that this acquisition is not affecting whatsoever plans for further Rock Band or Fuser support, with ideas for Rivals Season 26 "and across." Any games currently available on Steam or consoles are also intended to stay available, at to the lowest degree for the forseeable future. There's very few other details right at present for merely what the studio volition be getting up to, though Harmonix notes that it will now exist working to bring its "unique make of musical gaming experiences to the Metaverse." Fortnite has been used to host various events in the past, including concerts and even films.

In improver to Harmonix and Mediatonic, Epic Games has been working to acquire other game development studios and game development tools over the last couple of years, including Rocket League developer Psyonix and the RAD Game Tools middleware gear up.

An internet connection will soon be required when setting up Windows 11 Pro

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An cyberspace connection will shortly be required when setting upwards Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft has announced that later this year, users will be required to connect to the internet and sign-in with a Microsoft Account during the out of box setup feel on Windows 11 Pro. Microsoft has already been enforcing this requirement on Windows eleven Home since launch last October, and Windows 11 Pro is now expected to follow suit soon.