The press release explains that Tencent actually reached an agreement at the end of November with 1C Company, the Russian parent company, which is therefore separating from its Warsaw subsidiary. To avoid any misunderstanding, 1C Entertainment will also be renamed within six months of the completion of the acquisition (be careful, “2B” is already taken). “1C Entertainment said it looks forward to joining the Tencent family and expects to reap the rewards of the many synergies between the two companies.“, can we read.
1C Entertainment has titles like King’s Bounty, Men of War, Ancestors Legacy and Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark in its catalog, but Gamekult readers are more likely to have been in contact with the games, without necessarily knowing it. from his QLOC studio, which specializes in PC ports. Founded in 2009, this Polish studio has only gone upmarket over the years, working on ports like Street Fighter X Tekken, DmC, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen, Dark Souls Remastered, Mortal Kombat 11 or even Cyberpunk 2077 (on Stadia).
Already the owner of Riot Games, Supercell, Funcom, Sumo Digital, Klei, Splash Damage, Digital Extremes, Grinding Gear Games, Sharkmob, Yager, Soleil, Turtle Rock Studios, Inflexion Games and therefore 1C Entertainment, Tencent is also present in the capital of Epic Games, Fatshark, Larian Studios, Dontnod, Bloober Team, Marvelous, Krafton, Frontier, Paradox Interactive, Ubisoft, PlatinumGames, Remedy, Bad Robot Games, 10 Chambers, Bohemia Interactive, Playtonic Games or even Voodoo, to name only the main ones . This in addition to its own studios which are TiMi Studios, Lightspeed & Quantum Studios and Team Kaiju.