Worms developers Team17 acquire Yippee Entertainment | Yooka-Laylee | Gamehypes

Worms developers Team17 acquire Yippee Entertainment

Yooka-Laylee

Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!

Team 17, the mob who make Worms as well as publishing games like Yooka-Laylee and Overcooked, have bought games studio Yippee Entertainment in a 1.4 million deal.

If you haven’t heard of Yippee before, they predominantly work on licensed games for companies like Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and the BBC. They’ve also made a platformer series of their own, Chimpact, which is mostly for mobile but has jumped on PC too.

(more…)