Venture-backed ZeniMax Buys Tango Gameworks

Venture-backed ZeniMax Media has acquired Tango Gameworks, the video game development shop run by designer Shinji Mikami. Mikami, who is best known as the creator of the Resident Evil series of video games, will join Rockville, Md.-based ZeniMax as a result of the deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not released. ZeniMax is backed by more than $400 million from Providence Equity Partners.

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