“Tencent is currently in the process of becoming Techland’s majority shareholder,” Techland founder Pawel Marchewka said in a message. “Teaming up with Tencent will allow us to move full speed ahead with the execution of the vision for our games. We have chosen an ally who has already partnered with some of the world’s finest video game companies and helped them reach new heights while respecting their ways of doing things.”
Just saw the article about this on IGN as well. I know they’ve been mostly hands-off with studios they acquire but this is still pretty sad news, I hate that even AA game devs are getting under the umbrella of few megacorps now…