Tencent is close to acquiring Hong Kong based gaming holding company Leyou Technologies, according to Bloomberg, with a final deal possibly being announced this week.
Leyou Technologies is the owner of Warframe developer Digital Extremes, Gears Tactics and Dirty Bomb developer Splash Damage (who also did co-development on Gears: UE, 4 and 5 and are currently also working on the Google Stadia exclusive game Outcasters) and Athlon Games, which is a US based publishing company best known for internationally publishing Samurai Shodown and being the publisher behind the revived Telltale Games. They also own various studios in China.
Leyou will also publish a new Lord of The Rings MMO in China, which will be internationally released by Amazon, a Transformers shooter game (being developed by Certain Affinity, of which Leyou owns 20% and has a deal in place to buy the studio after 2020) and is working on Civilization Online, an MMO based on the Civilization franchise.
Leyou Technologies is the owner of Warframe developer Digital Extremes, Gears Tactics and Dirty Bomb developer Splash Damage (who also did co-development on Gears: UE, 4 and 5 and are currently also working on the Google Stadia exclusive game Outcasters) and Athlon Games, which is a US based publishing company best known for internationally publishing Samurai Shodown and being the publisher behind the revived Telltale Games. They also own various studios in China.
Leyou will also publish a new Lord of The Rings MMO in China, which will be internationally released by Amazon, a Transformers shooter game (being developed by Certain Affinity, of which Leyou owns 20% and has a deal in place to buy the studio after 2020) and is working on Civilization Online, an MMO based on the Civilization franchise.
