Nintendo has announced the completion of an acquisition, which opens up some interesting opportunities for the Japanese company down the line.

This as Nintendo has bought animation studio Dynamo Pictures, confirming in official documents (PDF) that it plans to make the company a subsidiary once the deal is closed later in the year.

“Nintendo has decided to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares (excluding treasury shares) of Dynamo Pictures and make it a wholly owned subsidiary to strengthen the planning and production structure of visual content in the Nintendo group,” a document detailing the purpose of the acquisition explains.

“The acquisition is expected to close on October 3, 2022, pending satisfaction of all relevant terms and customary closing conditions,” it adds.

While it remains to be seen what projects Dynamo Pictures will be made to work on by Nintendo once the deal closes, there is a treasure trove of valuable intellectual property (IP) at its disposable.

Currently some other projects involving Nintendo properties are in the works, with the most notable being an animated Mario Brothers starring Chris Pratt as the titular Italian plumber that’s expected to hit cinemas in the latter half of next year.

While Dynamo has no affiliation to that project, the world of Zelda is ripe for mining and creating animated projects for.

Either way, this acquisition follows a recent trend of videogame content being turned into movies and TV series. This is by no means a new thing, but in recent years it has increased significantly.

To that end we are already getting a The Last of Us series via HBO, along with more films from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe, not to mention Gran Turismo and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Hopefully these upcoming projects can prove better than the more divisive entries we have seen in the past, which includes the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film.