Swordfish Studios acquisition

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– Monumental Games, the UK’s fastest growing developer of middleware technology for Massively Multi-Player Online (MMO) gaming and Virtual Worlds, today announced the acquisition of Swordfish Studios (Manchester) from Activision, part of the Vivendi Universal Group. The Studios comprise a team of 26 experienced developers based in Manchester’s cutting-edge MediaCity:UK. The acquisition takes Monumental’s workforce to more than 100 people and makes it one of the largest, independent, UK-owned development teams.

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