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 fine. The latter was fWaved in Poland in July last year by Pawel Rohleder and Adam Lason. The Wrocław-based studio was acquired for an unknown sum, however We know that £ 250,000 has already been paid. Through this operation will PixelAnt Games, which currently employs 13 people, will be the tenth sumo digital studio. This acquisition doesn’t question the studio’s organizational chart, but it does engage the entire workforce Development of Sumo Digital Stamp Projects. However, it is visible expects the studio to expand in the coming months and eventually develop an original license. Carl Cavers, CEO of Sumo Group, said on the occasion:
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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