{"id":113039,"date":"2020-05-15T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363065"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:22:00","slug":"sumo-group-acquires-uk-work-for-hire-studio-lab42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/sumo-group-acquires-uk-work-for-hire-studio-lab42\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo Group acquires UK work-for-hire studio Lab42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sumo Group has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sumo-digital.com\/sumo-group-announces-the-acquisition-of-lab42-limited\/\">acquired work-for-hire development studio Lab42<\/a> for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based in Leamington Spa, Lab42 has worked on a wide range of projects for clients like Sega Publishing Europe, Klei Entertainment, Aspyr, and Ripstone, including titles such as <em>Yakuza 0<\/em>, <em>Sonic Mania<\/em>, and <em>Terratech<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The studio also holds the exclusive license to the World Snooker Tour brand, and was the sole-developer on&nbsp;sports sim <em>Snooker 19<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sumo already owns a number of studios including <em>Everybody&#8217;s Gone to the Rapture<\/em> developer The Chinese Room, <em>LittleBigPlanet 3 <\/em>maker Sumo Digital, and<em> God of War: Remastered<\/em> co-developer Red Kite Games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It explained the addition of Lab42 will strengthen its presence in Leamington Spa, where Sumo Digital currently has an office, while also&nbsp;bolstering&nbsp;its development team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity to buy Lab42, a business that is highly respected in the industry and well known to key members of our team, was both timely and compelling,&#8221; commented Sumo Group chief exec Carl Cavers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The addition of a 29 strong, established, proven and talented team will help keep our organic growth ambitions on track, through the COVID-19 pandemic, which, as previously reported, has created some recruitment challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumo Group has acquired work-for-hire development studio Lab42 for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp; Based in Leamington Spa, Lab42 has worked on a wide range of projects for clients like Sega Publishing Europe, Klei Entertainment, Aspyr, and Ripstone, including titles such as Yakuza 0, Sonic Mania, and Terratech.&nbsp; The studio also holds the exclusive license to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}