Life is Crime-Maker Red Robot Labs Expands by Buying London's Supermono

In the four months since its release, Red Robot Labs’ flagship game, Life is Crime has gone from an unproven title in the crowded crime genre to a fixture on the Android top grossing charts that has seen almost a million downloads.

Now the company is crossing the pond by acquiring London studio Supermono. The U.K. studio is already at work building a new location-based game on Red Robot’s R2 platform. Chief executive Mike Ouye adds that he has also been talking to other independent developers about partnerships which extend R2’s reach even further by as early as the first quarter of next year.

“There are many, many companies that announce platforms and announce funds to help others and that’s an interesting strategy, but ours is very different,” says co-founder Pete Hawley.

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