Tencent's empire in video games is still growing.
The Chinese group announced on Monday, in quick succession, two operations involving European studios.
For 1 billion euros, he acquires the British Sumo Group, a specialist in big-budget console games (
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
) and becomes the majority shareholder of the Swedish Stunlock Studios, a much smaller entity at the origin of the PC game. competitive
Battlerite
.
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Tencent had started shopping at the start of the year, by becoming the majority shareholder of the Swedish FatShark (
Warhammer
), of the Canadian Klei (
Don't Starve
), and by taking minority shares in the capital of the French Dontnod (
Life is Strange
) and from Czech Bohemia Interactive (
DayZ
).
Investments in eclectic structures, to which have been added some forty operations in Chinese studios since the beginning of the year.
"In 2021, Tencent realizes on average one financial deal in video games every three days"
, notes the firm Niko Partners,
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