Splash Damage bought by Chinese chicken meat company Leyou

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Splash Damage, the maker of Dirty Bomb and Gears of War 4's multiplayer, has an unlikely new owner: a Chinese chicken meat supplier called Leyou.
This will be Leyou's second major video game studio acquisition, having pecked up Warframe developer Digital Extremes partially in 2015, then fully earlier this year. The Leyou-Warframe acquisition was reported in 2014, back when Leyou was called Sumpo Food.
It isn't clear how much money - golden nuggets? - changed hands; the statement (via allgamesdelta) only mentions that 'The Consideration', which is the sum of a few different things, shall not "in any event" exceed $150m.
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