Sharkmob's studio in Malmo, Sweden.
Sharkmob's studio in Malmo, Sweden.
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Tencent-owned Sharkmob opens triple-A game studio in London

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sweden’s Sharkmob has opened a triple-A game studio in London, and it’s starting to hire developers for it. Given the background of the former Ubisoft developers, the studio has cred when it comes to talking about making quality games.

This move shows that it’s still possible, if not common, for new triple-A game studios to get off the ground. Sharkmob has more than 200 people in Sweden, and it has been able to build up that much because Tencent acquired Sharkmob in May 2019. Because of the funding from the massive Chinese conglomerate, the company can work on multiple ambitious games at the same time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.