Tencent Acquires Minority Stake In Yooka-Laylee Developer Playtonic

Tencent has acquired a number involvement successful Playtonic, the developer down Yooka-Laylee and its 2D sequel, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. 

This quality comes by mode of Playtonic, which announced the quality successful a blog post made today. The workplace says it volition clasp “full originative power implicit its IP” and volition usage Tencent’s concern backing to standard from its existent operation to a bigger one. 

“Playtonic...will usage the concern to standard from their existent 1 squad operation to aggregate teams, with an accent connected hiring divers endowment from adjacent and afar, improving their HQ, arsenic good arsenic looking to grow successful caller locations,” Playtonic’s blog station reads. 

Playtonic laminitis Gavin Price says Tencent’s concern volition assistance the workplace scale-up and fast-track the “super-exciting, super-secret projects we’ve been keeping adjacent to our treasure chests.” The enlargement of the workplace has already begun, too, with Playtonic hiring Danny Spiteri, formerly of Raw Fury and Team 17, arsenic its caller Head of Publishing. 

For much Playtonic, cheque retired our thoughts connected its archetypal crippled successful Game Informer’s Yooka-Laylee review and past work what we thought of its 2D sequel in Game Informer’s Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair review aft that. 

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