Kinesiske selskaber hælder fortsat penge i gaming. Vi har set teleselskaber, minevirksomheder og andre investere i spiludviklere, og siden 2015 er madproducenter også begyndt at rykke ind i branchen. Nu er Leyou Technologies ved at lukke en aftale om at købe Splash Damage, studiet bag spil som Enemy Territory, Brink og Dirty Bomb.
I en officiel melding skriver Leyou Tecnologies at de køber Splash Damage, Fireteam og Warchest fra Paul Wedgwood via underselskabet Radium Maxima, for en sum på maksimalt $150 millioner.
Leyou begyndte deres rykind i spilbranchen sidste år. Der købte de Digital Extremes, studiet bag Warframe og medudvikler på flere af Unreal Tournament-spillene. Det kinesiske selskab ejer også 81,25% af SNK Playmore.
Leyou Technologies skiftede til deres nuværende navn for få år siden. Selskabets hovedforretning er at levere kyllingekød til kæder såsom Kentucky Fried Chicken. Reuters beskriver dem således:
Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited, formerly Sumpo Food Holdings Limited (Sumpo), is engaged in supplying chicken meat products in the Fujian Province and sells its chicken meat products under the Sumpo brand. It has three segments: chicken meat segment carries on the business of slaughtering, production and sales of chicken meat; chicken breed segment carries on the business of hatching of broiler eggs and breeding of parent stock day-old chicks, and animal feeds segment carries on the business of feeds production. As of June 30, 2010, the Company had three breeder farms, one hatching facility, five broiler breeding farms, one animal feeds production facility and one slaughtering and processing facility. It is the supplier of chicken meat to Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dicos and Mckey.
Tak, Golem.de.