Sherlock Holmes title by Frogwares after dispute with Focus Home Interactive from digital trading

Focus Home Interactive SA is a French video game developer and author based in Paris, France. Founded in 1996, Focus has actually released and distributed original titles such as Sherlock Holmes, TrackMania, Runaway and sporting activities games like Biking Manager and also Virtual Captain. On 25 June 2010, it was revealed that Focus had actually obtained the Cities XL franchise business from now inoperative Monte Cristo. In 2012, Focus began working with Giants Software program, developer of Farming Simulator.In June 2020, the firm obtained Deck13 for EUR7.1 million. In April 2021, Focus likewise obtained Streum On Workshop. In August 2021, the business acquired Dotemu for about EUR38.5 million (US$ 46 million).


The collision has led to the fact that some games are permanently unavailable.

Developer Frogwares has made a name for itself as a solid midrange developer, which specializes in detective games. Your youngest, The falling city is a solid Lovecraft-inspired title. Before that they were largely known for their sherlock Holmes games, which followed a similar structure like The falling city. Now it seems that these games could disappear very well, as a dispute with the publisher of these titles, Focus Home Interactive, most of them canceled from the Digital Store.

In a statement published by Frogwares, they confirmed that all their sherlock Holmes titles were drawn with the exception of digital shop windows _ Criminal and punishment of Sherlock Holmes_, which will suffer the same fate on September 29th. Apparently the agreement ended with FOCUS and Focus rejected it to transfer rights to these listings on Frogwares, which led to a delisting.

At the moment the only game is left over _ Crush and punishment of Sherlock Holmes_ This has only 29 September, Frogwares said. It is possible that it is switched off at this time or earlier if nothing is done. The players can no longer buy and play the game. We will also lose all our Wishlists on these store pages. As a developer and IP owners of all these games, we have no control and can not exercise a say in this regard. The decision of Focus Home has made us speechless.

The developer works on new store profiles, but due to the period and the versatility of some of these titles (many were published crossgences on PS3 and Xbox 360), it makes the creation of listings either costly or impossible.

What happened here is very unusual and it seems very likely that some of these games or at least some versions of these games never see a downloadable option. We will keep you up to date, hoping that all this can be solved.

Tags: FOCUS Home Interactive, PC, PS3, PS4, Sherlock Holmes: The Daughter of the Devil, Xbox 360, Xbox One

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