Sony acquires Audiokinetic and its popular Wwise sound tool

Sony Interactive Entertainment is making an acquisition to beef up its game-development toolkit. The publisher revealed that it is buying sound-engineering firm Audiokinetic. As part of this deal, Sony will take control of the Wwise toolkit that enables developers to easily add interactive audio to game worlds.

Once the acquisition goes through, Audiokinetic will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SIE. But Sony does not intend to take the Wwise software off of the market. Audiokinetic will continue licensing its tools to third-party developers.