Darewise Entertainment
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Darewise Entertainment was a Paris-based game studio founded in 2015 by former Ubisoft game director Benjamin Charbit and ex-Ubisoft and Crytek tech lead Samuel Kahn. Staffed by veterans of titles including Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Unity, Dying Light 2, Tom Clancy's The Division and the Fable series, the studio released the survival sandbox game Rokh into Steam Early Access in 2017 and then pivoted to Life Beyond, a blockchain-based play-and-earn MMORPG. In April 2022, Animoca Brands acquired a 70% majority stake in the studio to accelerate Life Beyond's Web3 development.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Liquidation
Le Figaro legal notice 6 Jun 2025 (opened): Tribunal des activités économiques de Paris judgment 22 May 2025 converting Darewise Entertainment SAS (RCS Paris 810907428) into liquidation judiciaire, liquidator SCP Canet / Me Patrick Canet.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
In April 2022, Animoca Brands acquired 70% of Darewise Entertainment; founders Benjamin Charbit and Samuel Kahn stayed on to continue developing Life Beyond under Animoca.
- 02
Life Beyond entered open alpha testing phases in mid-2022, but no commercial launch was reported.
- 03
French company registry aggregator Verif currently lists Darewise Entertainment (SIREN 810907428) as Inactive; no court judgment or press announcement documenting the 2025 liquidation was found in public sources.
- 04
No verified failure reasons are publicly available; the company registry data is itself contradictory (SIRENE-based data shows the legal entity as still active), so failure causes are not inferred.