Athlon Games

Athlon Games Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	May 24, 2018 (2018-05-24)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California , United States
Parent	Leyou

Athlon Games Inc. is a video game publisher headquartered in Los Angeles, California, operating as a subsidiary of the Chinese company Leyou. The firm gained recognition by acquiring a majority interest in the entity succeeding Telltale Games and by distributing SNK's weapon-centric fighting title Samurai Shodown internationally, excluding Japan and China, in 2019. Additionally, Athlon is scheduled to collaborate with Telltale on the co-publication of The Wolf Among Us 2.

History

On May 24, 2018, Leyou, a Chinese holding enterprise, revealed the establishment of Athlon Games, a publishing branch based in Los Angeles that concentrates on PC and console game markets and strategic co-publishing ventures. By September 2018, Leyou had acquired licensing rights from Middle-earth Enterprises to create and publish a free-to-play online game inspired by The Lord of the Rings. In July 2019, Amazon Game Studios joined this initiative as both co-developer and worldwide publisher, while Athlon was assigned publishing responsibilities within China and Taiwan.

During the latter part of 2019, Athlon undertook publishing duties for Samurai Shodown outside of Japan and China and secured equity in LCG Entertainment, the company that had acquired Telltale Games' intellectual properties. The publisher also pledged to co-release upcoming Telltale titles, starting with Batman: Shadows Edition in December 2019. In December 2020, Tencent acquired Leyou through its subsidiary Image Frame Investment. Subsequently, on April 17, 2021, Tencent and Amazon announced that contractual disagreements had caused Amazon to cancel the anticipated The Lord of the Rings MMO project.

Games

Year	Title	Platform(s)
		PS4	PS5	Win	XONE	XSXS
2019	Samurai Shodown	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
	Batman: Shadows Edition	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
TBA	The Wolf Among Us 2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes