{"id":349856,"date":"2025-10-22T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2167510"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:35:51","slug":"funcom-buys-conan-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/funcom-buys-conan-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Funcom buys Conan IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/funcom-buys-conan-ip.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funcom has bought the Conan intellectual property and announced a new game that combines characters from the Robert E. Howard universe.<\/p>\n<p>The Age of Conan and Conan Exiles developer &#8211; now owned by Tencent &#8211; bought Cabinet Group, which held dozens of intellectual properties, including Conan the Barbarian, Mutant Year Zero and Solomon Kane.<\/p>\n<p>It plans to merge these intellectual properties into the IP studio Heroic Signatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-14-funcom-buys-conan-ip\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-14-funcom-buys-conan-ip\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funcom has bought the Conan intellectual property and announced a new game that combines characters from the Robert E. Howard universe. The Age of Conan and Conan Exiles developer &#8211; now owned by Tencent &#8211; bought Cabinet Group, which held dozens of intellectual properties, including Conan the Barbarian, Mutant Year Zero and Solomon Kane. 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