Pipeworks completion

16 October 2020

SUMO GROUP PLC

("Sumo Group", or the "Group")

Pipeworks completion

Following the announcement on 15 October 2020, Sumo Group, the award-winning provider of creative and development services to the video games and entertainment industries, today announces that the acquisition of Lake Street Labs Buyer Corp, the owner of Pipeworks Inc. ("Pipeworks"), has now completed.

Carl Cavers, Chief Executive Officer of Sumo Group, said:

"Pipeworks is an exciting addition to the Group and we welcome Lindsay Gupton, the CEO of Pipeworks, and his team to Sumo Group. We have already started to explore specific opportunities with clients and we look forward to creating great games together."

About Sumo Group - www.sumogroupplc.com 

Sumo Group's businesses provide acclaimed development and design services to the video games and entertainment industries from studios in the UK, India, Canada and the US.

Sumo Digital, as the Group's primary business, is one of the UK's largest independent developers of AAA-rated video games, having studios in Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Leamington Spa, Warrington and Pune, India. The business has acquired three studios since IPO, which operate under their own names, BAFTA award-winning The Chinese Room in Brighton, Red Kite Games in Leeds and Lab42 in Leamington Spa. Sumo Digital provides turnkey and co-development solutions to a global blue-chip client base.

Atomhawk is a multi-award-winning visual design company, with studios in Newcastle and in Vancouver (Canada), servicing the games, film and visual effects industries.

Pipeworks is an innovative, well-established, and respected US video games developer based in Eugene, Oregon. It provides full development, co-development, and live operations to premier video game publishers and other partners.