Restructuring Hi-Rez announces layoffs in studios, dissolving Rogue Company: Elite developer First Watch Games
2021 In Review Digital Turbine's Mike Ng on consolidation in adtech and the ramifications of Epic vs. Apple
August 24, 2021 Bigger Beast Vungle and Liftoff merge to create end-to-end mobile adtech Consolidation upscales
May 20, 2021 Alpha To Omega How Vungle’s M&A activity aligns with its wider platform vision TreSensa deal is part of the process
May 19, 2021 Vertical Integration Vungle's third big acquisition is cloud-based ad creative outfit TreSensa Building out a complete platform
May 6, 2021 Big Deal Zynga acquires adtech outfit Chartboost for $250 million in cash Vertical consolidation happening
September 17, 2020 Stillfront Acquisition Stillfront acquires Nanobit in deal worth up to $148 million $100 million now, up to $48 million in 2023
June 11, 2020 Eat Or Be Eaten Despite $1.8 billion Peak deal, Zynga isn't 'acquisition-ed out' President of publishing Bernard Kim on a hungry beast
February 10, 2020 Upward Move Adtech vertical consolidation accelerates as IronSource launches Supersonic Games Will develop and publish hypercasual mobile games
February 4, 2020 Freak On A Leash Nintendo is consolidating its Tokyo offices and Game Freak might be tagging along Reports indicate that the Pokemon developer is moving to the same area, if not the same building
December 21, 2018 More Is More Despite spending over $1 billion Zynga’s M&A activity isn’t over yet CEO Frank Gibeau is unsated
May 30, 2018 The Magic Number Frank Gibeau on why Zynga’s $250 million acquisition of Gram Games adds up Riding Merge Dragons! to success
February 1, 2018 Keywords Growing Keywords Studios expects 2017 revenues to hit $186 million following 11 acquisitions in a year Still has $37.9 million in cash for further acquisitions
December 13, 2017 Keywords At It Again Keywords Studios picks up work-for-hire developer Sperasoft for $27 million $21 million in cash now, the rest in shares and $1 million cash next year
August 17, 2017 Kakao Games Merge Kakao merges its games division with subsidiary Kakao Games Hoping to improve efficiency and competitiveness
July 28, 2017 Join The Family Capcom to dissolve and absorb Capcom Mobile subsidiary Also posts sales of $105.6 million for the quarter
April 13, 2017 Icandy Acquisition iCandy Interactive acquires Singapore mobile dev Inzen for $4.4 million to gain access to China market Inzen gains access to iCandy's 17 million players too
February 17, 2017 Another Keywords Acquisition Keywords continues acquisition spree with $1.5 million purchase of animation studio Spov London-based animation studio joins the ranks
July 15, 2016 Buying Data Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista continues its westward expansion buying GameAnalytics Deal #2
July 11, 2016 High Reward, Risk For unicorn wannabes like Kabam, the mobile games market is now boom or bust Can you afford a $20 million bet?
July 8, 2016 Games Meet Movies SGN targets big brand "gamertainment" with TinyCo acquisition Gateway to new genres and working with IP
June 21, 2016 More Players, More Taxes Supercell CEO explains thinking behind "very long term" Tencent deal Ilkka Paananen on his second strategic investor in as many years
June 3, 2016 Consolidation Mobile game advertising market hits maturity as Fiksu sells out for historic data Facebook ate their lunch
May 26, 2016 Neat Strategy Kabam acqui-hires Dawn of Steel dev Superweapon to boost its LA studio Consolidation move
March 16, 2016 10 In 10 10 years of Pocket Gamer: Christopher Kassulke on being one of the first to put GPS into mobile games 10 questions, 10 answers, 10 years
March 15, 2016 Expanding Updated: Innogames acquires Funatics to create a mobile-focused Dusseldorf studio 40-strong studio is ready to roll
March 14, 2016 Taping Up The Market App Annie acquires app marketing tracking outfit AppScotch Third deal in three years
March 3, 2016 Roll Up Roll Up RNTS spends up to $72 million, adding Inneractive to Heyzap and Fyber to hit $220 million in sales by 2017 Spending spree
February 29, 2016 Going West Chinese mobile ad network Mobvista buys NativeX for $25 million Rolled up
February 22, 2016 What's Next? The 5 trends that will dictate mobile gaming's evolution in 2016 David Diaz consults his crystal ball
February 19, 2016 French Fancies Vivendi makes a formal takeover offer for troubled Gameloft 30% shareholding triggers move
February 18, 2016 Going Wider Tapjoy embraces 'meta mediation' role as it integrates MoPub, Fyber and AerServ Aggregating the aggregators
February 15, 2016 Jackpot Social casino consolidation continues as GSN Games acquires Plumbee London dev snapped up
January 8, 2016 Big Bigger Best #PGCLondon 2016 speaker Kabam’s Rob Simister predicts more winner-takes-all consolidation What to expect at PG Connects London 2016
January 8, 2016 Ua Roll Up UA consolidation gathers pace as Fyber buys Heyzap for up to $45 million Total reach tops 500 million MAUs
December 24, 2015 Beginning Of The End 2015 in Review: Kobojo's Mario Rizzo on replacing UA with community focus Future trends from the remembrance of things past
December 15, 2015 Friend Of The Stars 2015 in Review: Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo de Masi on building his deck with Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj Future trends from the remembrance of things past
November 4, 2015 What's Next? Mobile Mavens debate the value of the deal and the future of mobile games in the Activision Blizzard King era Big boys at play
November 3, 2015 Good, Bad, Hopeful What Newzoo, App Annie and IHS think about Activision Blizzard's $5.9 billion King deal Talking heads
November 3, 2015 Best Available Deal Why Activision Blizzard bought King, not Zynga, Glu or Kabam Big bucks
November 3, 2015 Takes The Crown Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion All cash deal will close in Spring 2016
September 10, 2015 Growth Path IronSource and Supersonic merge to generate a company with $450 million annual sales Israeli hook-up
May 6, 2015 Just Swell App Annie gains 12th office location as it acquires usage analytics outfit Mobida Analytics outfit grows its numbers
March 23, 2015 Ready To Blow AdColony's Thorbjorn Warin on the potential rise of the Indian mobile game market What to expect at PG Connects Bangalore 2015
March 16, 2015 Ad Up Funds Cheetah Mobile acquires MobPartner for $58 million The move to mobile ad tech
December 19, 2014 Interview 2014 in Review: Jesse Divnich, Tilting Point - As the market matures, consolidation begins Future trends from the remembrance of things past