{"id":118713,"date":"2020-09-30T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371095"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:55:00","slug":"sumo-group-acquires-development-studio-pipeworks-to-break-into-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/sumo-group-acquires-development-studio-pipeworks-to-break-into-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumo Group acquires development studio Pipeworks to break into the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sumo Group has acquired Oregon-based development&nbsp;studio Pipeworks&nbsp;for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp;The deal is part of Sumo&#8217;s plan to break into the U.S. market, and includes Pipeworks&#8217; 134-strong team and original properties like<em> Prominence Poker<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based in the UK, Sumo Group is the parent company of <em>LittleBigPlanet 3<\/em> developer Sumo Digital and others including The Chinese Room, Red Kite Games, and Lab42.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pipeworks was founded in 1999, and has developed or co-developed over 100 games and technology solutions for notable clients including EA Sports, Wizards of the Coast, and Google.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has previously&nbsp;worked on franchises including <em>Terraria<\/em> and<em> Madden NFL,<\/em> and is currently working on an unannounced original project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the move, Sumo chief exec Carl Cavers said the purchase will help the company produce more new titles and original properties in-house.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the largest acquisition Sumo Group has made since IPO,&#8221; explained&nbsp;Cavers in a press release. &#8220;Our underlying market is strong, and we see good opportunities for new games, including Original-IP developed by our talented studios.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumo Group has acquired Oregon-based development&nbsp;studio Pipeworks&nbsp;for an undisclosed fee.&nbsp;The deal is part of Sumo&#8217;s plan to break into the U.S. market, and includes Pipeworks&#8217; 134-strong team and original properties like Prominence Poker.&nbsp; Based in the UK, Sumo Group is the parent company of LittleBigPlanet 3 developer Sumo Digital and others including The Chinese Room, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118713","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\/118713","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=118713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}