A2M (Artificial Mind and Movement), have revealed that they have bought Wanako Studios, the workhorse of the now defunct Sierra Online XBLA initiative.

With this transaction, A2M is expanding its offering across Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network using Wanako's TONGAS game framework, while entering a growing market segment complimenting its portfolio.

Wanako Studios had been Sierra's major creative output for the Xbox Live Arcade, creating the popular Assault Heroes series, the dungeon hacker Arkadian Warriors, and doing the dirty work on bringing the half-finished 3D Ultra Mini Golf to the platform as well.

While A2M are now the owners of the development studio, they continue to work on Sierra and Activision projects. In the press release A2M specifically mention that Wanako are currently working on 3D Ultra Mini Golf Adventures 2, as well as an unannounced XBLA / PSN title. Going by our own hunches and leaks, we could believe that the game might be a new Incredible Machine game, as well as possibly a port of Assault Heroes to PSN.

That still leaves titles such as Switchball PSN, Zombie Wranglers and Red Baron Arcade up in the air in terms of Sierra's XBLA portfolio, as well as what the deal is with Sierra's Shanghai Studio, which was their other XBLA developer. It will be interesting to see what Activision's next move will be.

Source: PR, via Shard.