![]() ![]() On top of those, Sumo also owns the Oregon-based Pipeworks, which works on console versions of Terraria, plus Atomhawk, Lab42, PixelAnt, Red Kite Games and Sumo Pune. Sumo has offices across the UK in Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle, Leamington Spa and Warrington, and is also the parent company of The Chinese Room, developer of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Tencent previously owned an 8.75 percent stake in Sumo, whose development credits also include additional work on Forza Horizon 2, LittleBigPlanet 3, Disney Infinity and Team Sonic Racing. At the time, Sumo bosses were keen for the deal to go through. Tencent’s intent to purchase Sumo, developer of Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Crackdown 3, was announced in July. ![]() It’s also looking into the US sale of TikTok. This is the same secretive taskforce once described by the Washington Post as “Trump’s Watchdog on China Dealmaking”. ![]() Sumo, which is based in Sheffield but has studios in the US, told Reuters that Chinese megacorp Tencent had agreed to offer undertakings to gain approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which assesses deals to ensure they do not hurt national security. A US national security panel is investigating Tencent’s £919m takeover of Sumo Group. ![]()
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