Tencent, one of the world's largest game companies, acquires the parent company of Turtle Rock Studios, which develops 'Back 4 Blood'



League of Legends is the developer Riot Games and the crash Royale Supercell with a number of, such as a game company under the umbrella, in the sales of the world's largest game company Tencent is, co-op zombie FPS ' Back 4 Blood It has been revealed that it has acquired Slamfire, the parent company of Turtle Rock Studios , the developer of '.

Tencent acquires Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios • Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-17-tencent-acquires-back-4-blood-developer-turtle-rock-studios

Turtle Rock Studios is a game development company founded by Michael Booth in March 2002. It was acquired by Valve , the operator of Steam, known as the PC game sales platform, in 2008, but was re-established in 2011 by Phil Robb and Chris Ashton as an independent company.

Xbox version of Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source through the FPS development of which was the release of Valve, such as, family and friends to seek the co-op FPS of shape to play together rather than fighting each other, Left 4 Dead developed. In October 2021, we released 'Back 4 Blood' as a new cooperative FPS that follows the trend of the Left 4 Dead series. In addition, the evaluation of Back 4 Blood about 2 months after its release is ' 77 ' on the review site Metacritic, and more than 27,000 reviews have been posted on Steam, of which more than 18,000. Is highly evaluated.

Back 4 Blood --Meet the Cleaners Trailer --YouTube


Tencent has acquired Slamfire, the parent company of Turtle Rock Studios. The purchase price has not been disclosed. As a result, Turtle Rock Studios will become a subsidiary of Tencent, but it seems that it will continue to operate independently in Lake Forest, California, USA, where it is currently based. In addition, Turtle Rock Studios will continue to be managed by co-founders Robb and Ashton.

Gaming companies that are wholly owned by Tencent include Riot Games, Funcom , Splash Damage , Supercell and Digital Extremes . Also, for game companies in which Tencent is a major shareholder or stake, Fortnite's Epic Games , Activision Blizzard , Ubisoft , Paradox Interactive , Remedy Entertainment , Frontier Developments , Dontnod Entertainment , Bloober Team , Playtonic Games , Platinum. Companies such as Games and Roblox Corporation are on the list.

'This acquisition will not affect the development of Back 4 Blood,' Tencent said, but Turtle Rock Studios is launching its first major update since the release of Back 4 Blood in line with the announcement of the acquisition.



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