The Chinese empires Tencent Games and Ne tease Games continue to make their hole gradually on the Western and Japanese markets. This week is the first named who advances a new pawn by acquiring the Japanese sun studio.
An acquisition made in all discretion, reports Bloomberg. This pure and simple assimilation of a Japanese studio is an unusual gesture for Tencent, which had so far been content to nibble shares at Marvelous, Platinum games and more recently Katakana. Founded in 2008 by Yoshifuru Nakamoto, a former Team Ninja, Sun developed Devil s Third, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Naruto to Boru to: Shinobi Striker, Samurai Jack: Battle Trough Time and Ninja la, Free-To-Play. 8 million downloads.
A profile specializing in action games, so for this studio that is now at work on Wanted: Dead and Vengeance is mine, two titles published by the new 110 Industries publisher. According to the studio site, Sun employs 105 people, including an artistic director of Marseille, yes.
Sun is the second Japanese studio recently bought by a Chinese giant after the acquisition of Grasshopper Manufacture by Ne tease Games, which also founded its own studio in Shibuya in 2020.
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