The former PUBG Mobile and PUBG: Battlegrounds writer Tencent has now invested in UK’s AAA studio, Lighthouse Games. The studio itself was introduced earlier this yr in March. It was based by Forza Horizon developer Playground Games’ former head and co-founder Gavin Raeburn. Here’s all you must find out about this newest replace.
Tencent invests in Lighthouse Games
The information comes by way of GamesTrade.biz. According to Raeburn’s assertion concerning the funding, the character is reportedly purely monetary because the members of the studio will proceed to manage its artistic and publishing selections. Tencent’s funding will likely be invested in “new expertise and recruitment”. However, the specifics of the worth of the funding haven’t but been made public.
Speaking to the publication, Raeburn explains,
“An funding of this scale permits us to develop our crew and show the imaginative and prescient for our sport and stay utterly unbiased, while nonetheless leveraging the talents and expertise of one of many world’s largest online game publishers.”
Lighthouse Games is already identified to be engaged on an unannounced new IP, as was revealed throughout the announcement again in March. It is reportedly being developed by Raeburn, together with “a crew of world class builders”. About Tencent’s funding, affecting the event of this new sport in progress, Raeburn says, “This new starting additionally permits us to construct our sport from the bottom up, with no legacy tech or structure to work round.”
Lighthouse Games is comprised of a number of the “key founding members” of Playground Games, excluding Raeburn. With a profitable franchise like Forza Horizon as part of their previous data, and now the funding of Tencent, we will count on one thing fascinating cooking at Playground Games.
