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ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game publisher Bethesda Softworks, has been on a spending spree lately. The company announced its acquisition of Arkane Studios last August and in October it announced it acquired the Japan-based Tango Gameworks. Now there's word that ZeniMax has bought yet another developer.

While the company has yet to reveal it officially, Develop has posted up word that business documents seem to confirm that Zenimax has bought Machinegames, a new developer formed last year by former members of Starbreeze Studios, the makers of the acclaimed first person action game The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. If this is indeed true the privately owned ZemiMax now owns six game development studios (Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax Online Studios, and id Software are the other three dev studios).

ZeniMax Media is continuing its acquisition activities. Today the parent company of publisher Bethesda Softworks announced that it has bought Tango Gameworks, the Japan-based game developer founded by Shinji Mikami, the famed creator of Capcom's Resident Evil series. He supervised the making of the first four games in the series.

The studio will naturally be making new game titles for Bethesda to publish but details of the games have yet to be announced. In addition to its in-house Bethesda Game Studios (makers of the Elder Scrolls series) and ZeniMax Online Studios (currently making an unannounced MMO game) ZeniMax Media acquired id Software in 2009 and earlier this year purchased Arkane Studios.