Everybody’s Gone To The Sumo.
Indie developers The Chinese Room, the team behind both Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture have become part of the Sumo Group.
Explaining the news in their first blog post for some time, the acquisition has seen a return to the fray for co-founder Dan Pinchbeck who will now act as creative director. The other half of that founding partnership, Jessica Curry, who was behind the iconic music of both games, won’t be returning, however, instead she’ll be continuing her career as a composer independently.
Whilst it might be a big change for the studio, it’s one that’ll see them being able to increase their staff after the layoffs from last year and will hopefully combat the creative difficulties that saw the studio go underground since last year.
Fans of the studio have been told that the group is now hard at work on a number of different projects as both The Chinese Room and Sumo look to learn from one another. So, whilst we might have to wait a little longer to see what the devs are up to, it’s good news all around as The Chinese Room return.
