News business The Sumo Group (Sackboy) acquires the Polish studio PixelAnt Games
Sumo Digital, parent company of Sumo Digital, announced today the acquisition of a new studio. For the first time, the group is offering itself a continental European studio with PixelAnt Games.
If the name of this studio doesn’t ring, that’s f ine. The latter was fWaved in Poland in July last year by Pawel Rohleder and Adam Lason
Increasing the workforce is a pillar of our growth strategy and access to new, high quality talent pools is critical to the successful implementation of this strategy. I am really happy that Adam and Pawel can see the benefits of joining the sumo family. Poland has been on our radar for a while and the acquisition of PixelAnt, which we know so well, is a great opportunity for us to enter this exciting market.
Sumo Group, whose studios recently worked on Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown 3, Team Sonic Racing, and LittleBigPlanet 3, is about to release Hood: Outlaws & Legends, a multiplayer action game in which two teams compete against each other for the execute perfect lap. In 2020 the group acquired Lab42, a UK studio, and Pipeworks in the US.
By MalloDelic, Journalist igamesnews.com
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