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Techland introduced right this moment that Chinese language firm Tencent is about to turn out to be its majority shareholder. The Polish studio will retain possession of its mental property, presumably together with the Dying Mild sequence, in addition to its inventive freedom.
That is removed from the primary time Tencent has invested in a sport studio. Up to now few years, the corporate has acquired Sumo Digital, Inflexion and Turtle Rock Studios, in addition to majority shareholdings in Wakeup Interactive and Tequila Works. It’s additionally creating a number of video games underneath its in-house Stage Infinite model.
Techland founder and CEO Paweł Marchewka introduced the acquisition, saying, “Teaming up with Tencent will enable us to maneuver full velocity forward with the execution of the imaginative and prescient for our video games. We have now chosen an ally who has already partnered with a few of the world’s most interesting online game firms and helped them attain new heights whereas respecting their methods of doing issues.” He added that he’ll stay as CEO.
At current, Techland is engaged on a brand new, unnamed fantasy RPG, and Marchewka mentioned it’s “already shaping as much as turn out to be one thing really particular, and the objective right here is to verify it’ll reside as much as the expectations for our first new IP in virtually a decade.” He additionally added that the developer had goals of reworking Dying Mild into “the last word zombie sport expertise … with a number of astonishing adventures and pushing the boundaries of solo and on-line modes to a completely new degree.”
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