Tencent reportedly acquired a 15.75% stake in Arrowhead Recreation Studios final yr.
In keeping with Swedish monetary publication Dagens Industri (subscription required, through PC Video games Insider), the Chinese language tech big paid $80 million for its stake within the Helldivers studio in a deal which valued the corporate at $532.8m.
The remaining 84.25% of Arrowhead is owned by founders Johan Pilestedt, Emil Englund, Malin Hedstrom, Peter Lindgren, and Anton Stenmark.
It’s claimed that Arrowhead had a turnover of $100.2m final yr and that it made a $76.2m revenue.
Helldivers 2 was printed by Sony for PS5 and PC final February and was a smash hit. The stay service title was PlayStation’s fastest-selling sport launch ever, with gross sales “far exceeding expectations” at 12m copies in its first 12 weeks.
“It’s unbelievable enjoyable and I really feel extremely pleased with what the crew has managed to realize. Above all, it’s proof that what we do resonates with the participant base,” Arrowhead chief artistic officer and ex-CEO Johan Pilestedt instructed Dagens Industri.
With regards to the Tencent deal, he added: “It additionally opens up alternatives for China as a market. Getting access to the Chinese language participant base is the holy grail within the gaming trade.”
Writing on Discord final month (through Forbes), Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani mentioned Helldivers 2’s success has given the studio extra freedom in relation to making and publishing its subsequent title.
“The fantastic factor is that because of the wonderful assist of you FINE individuals Arrowhead’s future is sort of vivid and we have now the liberty to discover some actually cool ideas that we couldn’t have in any other case. Recreation 6 (our subsequent challenge) will occur the way in which it should occur because of you.”
“The subsequent sport is 100% funded by ourselves so we’ll name 100% of these photographs,” he added.
