Tencent now also buys Turtle Rock Studios, the makers of back 4 Blood

One can clearly say one about the Chinese Tech Giant Tencent : The industry octopus grows and grows and relies on everything that is not rivet and nail. Already in January 2020, they invested in Platinum Games, in May last year, parts of Marvelous were acquired and in April 2021 one bought the high-sales Time Studios, the creators of Call of Duty Mobile.

With the Sumo Group Tencent also scored a studio under the nail this year, which develops for Sony and then invested generously in Platonic, the developers of Yooka-Laylee. Now Tencent has bought another studio, namely Turtle Rock Studios, the makers of the Loop Shooter Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood (Buy Now €38,99 / €39.99).

Buying Turtle Rock Studios: The Technical Octopus Tencent Grows

Tencent but Tencent did not buy Turtle Rock Studios directly, but whose parent company Slam fire Inc. Back 4 Blood should not be affected by the transaction, as well as that Turtle Rock Studios continues to be under the leadership of the studio Founder Chris Ashton and Philip Rob run.

As with such purchases customary, representatives of both parties announced their joy of the process. Steve Goldstein, President and Manager at Turtle Rock announced the following: We are all looking forward to joining the Tencent family in Studios. Tencent's outstanding partner, global reach, animal knowledge about video games and unprecedented support will help us the ambitious Creating games that we dream of and allow us to keep our independent mind.

Even with Tencent, of course, the purchase of the studio is very pleased and looks of future cooperation, hopefully. Eddie Chan, Chief Strategy Officer at Tencent announced: We are big fans of the games of Turtle Rock, especially their Great batch How to create cooperative online games. We can not wait to see what comes next and look forward to being part of your future.

Source: Businesslike

From Jonas Roger author 19.12.2021 at 14:26