Developers still not satisfied with the acquisition of a majority stake from Spec Ops: The Line, now Tencent is back with news of a new acquisition that’s no less big. Via the news we received, Tencent is now preparing to acquire Sumo Group (Sumo Digital), the studio that previously developed the game Sackboy: A Big Adventure. How will it be? let’s continue the discussion gamedem news This one.
Successfully launched in 2017, this studio from Sheffield, England was once popular with its cool games that were released on many famous platforms. His games called Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown and Snake Pass are still very popular today. Although the studio is fairly foreign to gamers, Sumo Group seems to have managed to steal Tencent’s attention.
Tencent officially acquires Sumo Group with a $1.27bn modal
This is clearly evident from the opening of the Sumo Group acquisition that Tencent did today. You can get this news directly through sports industry More Twitter related posts Daniel Ahmed. Through this post you can clearly see that Tencent now holds 8.75% of the shares. Continuing this, Tencent has also spent a total of $1.27bn to buy this stock.
Shareholders will get an offer of 513 pence per share, which means it has increased by 43% from the previous 358 pence. Just a reminder, that Tencent itself has increased its investment in 62 game companies during 2021. He also promised to continue to support the 40 new projects that the Sumo Group is currently planning for the future.
Tencent will support 40 new projects
Not only Sumo Group, Tencent has reportedly also acquired three other popular game companies namely Funcom (Dev ConanExiles), Yager (Dev Spec Ops: the Line) and 10 Chambers (Dev GTFO). Unfortunately, as of now there is no certainty about which project they are actually working on. Given that Tencent itself is more interested in the mobile market, we’re likely to get a new mobile game from them.
If you haven’t had a chance to try out Sackboy: A Big Adventure Game, now is the perfect time to try it. If you’re interested, you can play Sackboy: A Big Adventure exclusively through the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 platforms. You can buy the physical version or digital version of this game directly through the Playstation store. What do you think, would you be interested in trying it?
