How Amplitude Studios Regained Its Independence, and What This Means for the Future
In November 2024, the French strategy specialists at Amplitude Studios returned to independence. We spoke to CEO and co-founder Romain de Waubert de Genlis about the split, future plans, their partnership with Hooded Horse, community initiatives, and their current games.
Since November 2024, the French studio Amplitude Studios has been independent again, having left Sega. Shortly before the Early Access release of Endless Legend 2 on 22 September 2025 - for which the studio chose Hooded Horse as its publishing partner - we spoke to Romain de Waubert de Genlis, the studio's CEO and co-founder. The interview covers the separation from Sega, the studio's current business strategy and direction, their collaboration with Hooded Horse, their most successful game to date (Humankind), their meanwhile independently community platform (Games2Gether) and some of the key concepts behind Endless Legend 2.