SNK Playmore bought by a Chinese Company

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SNK Playmore has reportedly been bought by Chinese company Leyou Millenium, paying out $63.5 million for 81.25% of their shares, granting them majority stake in the company. The core reason given by Oriential Securities (part of the joint venture with Leyou) CEO Zheng Jianhui for purchasing SNK is their IP and characters.

They've announced that they want to play out their business strategy like "Marvel," which branching forms of media outside of just games. He promises more games, shows, and movies -- so no, SNK isn't fully dead.

This can mean bad things like more pachi slot machines based on KOF or just more mobile ones, but it can also mean that the IP's like King of Fighters, Metal Slug and even their many older game series could return thanks to a company that has a much bigger budget to develope games.

I just hope this really will be the case.
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For me, I'm hoping more non-fighting game IPs get more love than they have, including Metal Slug. I'm not sure what you think about the series, but I really do care about the series a whole lot.