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Square Enix restructures and sells its free-to-play titles to Sleepy Giant

Japan’s Square Enix, a major video game publisher that just published a reboot of Tomb Raider, announced a big restructuring today. And GamesBeat has learned that the company has sold off its portfolio of free-to-play games to Sleepy Giant Entertainment, a startup with a considerable amount of funding.

Sleepy Giant raised $100 million from TPG Capital, the private equity firm run by financiers David Bonderman and James Coulter, and Evolution Media Capital. It’s not clear what titles Square Enix has sold, but it evidently has lost its appetite for launching the free-to-play titles on its own. Square Enix is a major publisher of hardcore games such as the Final Fantasy series.

The companies have not announced any deal yet. We’ve queried Sleepy Giant for a comment. A spokesman for Square Enix said, “We don’t comment on any details for external development deals.” But multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed that Sleepy Giant has picked up four unannounced Square Enix games.

Meanwhile, Square Enix formally announced on Monday evening (U.S. time) that its digital entertainment business will fall substantially below revenue expectations due to slow sales of major console games in North America and Europe. The company said it is “also experiencing sluggish performance of its arcade machine business.”