Epic Games is investing in beans. Magic beans! Beans shaped like vaguely humanoid creatures nut you really don’t want to see what the anatomy of these organisms looks like! Mediatonic’s Fall Guys took the world by storm last year, providing a perfect respite from everything else going on in the world at the time. A winner had emerged, and along with the best social media account in video games, Fall Guys hasn’t fallen off the map since it arrived initially as a PS Plus freebie.

The latest studio that has been rumoured to have been swooped up by the most powerful bank account in existence? Dying Light 2 developer Techland. Only that’s not happening, as Techland's community manager confirmed that the developer has no plans to sell off its independence and that "it was not acquired by another publisher".

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Clearly needing to do something with its cave of money, Riot looks to be expanding further into games development by acquiring new studios.

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While the precise details of the project have yet to be confirmed, Typhoon Studios have a number of high profile developers under their roof.

Codemasters is about to get even bigger as the studio behind F1 2019 and GRID just snapped up the talent behind Project Cars for a cool $30 million.