Klei Entertainment has insisted it "retains full autonomy" after Tencent bought a majority stake in the company.

Klei, best-known for its enormously popular gothic survival adventure Don't Starve, said it remains in control of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent and more.

The Tencent purchases means "there are some boring accounting changes that we will need to adjust to", Klei founder Jamie Cheng said in a post on the studio's forum, but other than that, "I will continue running the studio as before, with no changes to staffing, projects or other operations."

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Gothic wilderness survival adventure Don't Starve is celebrating the full release of its piggy themed DLC expansion Hamlet on PC, arriving after just over seven months of early access development.

Hamlet is developer Klei Entertainment's third DLC expansion for Don't Starve, following on from behemoth-flavoured Reign of Giants and the nautically themed Shipwrecked, and sees players travelling deep into a foreboding tropical jungle.

Hamlet's inevitably perilous new biome introduces previously unseen wildlife and seasons, and features some notable landmarks among the dense, unwelcoming foliage. There are mysterious, trap- and treasure-filled ruins waiting to be explored - the last remnants of an ancient pig civilisation - and a secluded town of aristocratic Pigmen, where players can slowly reacclimatise to society after all that time in the wild.

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