Hypergryph to Move Headquarters into Full Shanghai Office Tower
The move signals Hypergryph's growth and Shanghai's active game industry, with the new office built around pet-friendly amenities for a young workforce.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Hypergryph, the studio behind Arknights and Arknights: Endfield, will move its headquarters to Building T1 of Phase 3 of Xuhui Vanke Center in Shanghai starting next year. The 37-story building offers about 3,000 square meters per floor. The current office has a gym, sleep capsules, a physiotherapy room, and a dedicated cat room, and the new lease includes pet management clauses.
Arknights has passed 100 million cumulative downloads worldwide since its 2019 launch in China and 2020 global release, and Arknights: Endfield drew 35 million pre-registrations before its January release, recording about 1.2 billion yuan in total sales across all platforms in its first two weeks. The new office sits in Xuhui Vanke Center, a transit-oriented complex developed over more than a decade, in a district with large commercial facilities and green space. Some media estimate the annual rent, including management fees, at about 200 million yuan, roughly 4.8 billion yen, reported as the largest single-building lease in Shanghai this year.
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