Tencent’s massive game company spending spree now includes Turtle Rock Studios, the California-based developer of Back 4 Blood and the original studio behind Left 4 Dead.
Chinese tech giant Tencent, which already owns League of Legends developer Riot Games, Supercell, and Funcom, and has stakes in Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, and Ubisoft, is buying Turtle Rock Studios, the developer of Back 4 Blood and Evolve. Tencent and Turtle Rock announced the acquisition Friday, saying that the video game developer will become part of Tencent “while retaining its independent operations […] and its existing team will continue to run all studio operations, led by co-founders Phil Robb and Chris Ashton.
