Jul 28, 2013

Acquisition

• Shanda Games
• Shanda Interactive Entertainment

$811.5m

Shanda tidies up online service costs for longterm mobile success with $811.5 million deal

Jul 29, 2013

Investment

• Kiwi
• Sequoia Capital

$9m

Kiwi Inc. closes $9 million funding round lead by Sequoia Capital

Jul 18, 2013

Investment

• KLab
• Oak Capital Corporation

$6.6m

Building an empire: Japanese publisher KLab raises $9.3 million

Jul 15, 2013

Investment

• Lunagames
• Linden Mobile Ventures

$0.5m

Dutch mobile outfit Lunagames raised $520,000 for expansion

Jun 26, 2013

Investment

• Ludei
• Kibo Ventures

$1.5m

Ludei raises $1.5 million to accelerate its HTML5 vision

Jun 25, 2013

Investment

• Appington
• Unity Ventures

$1.2m

Voice engagement platform Appington raises $1.2 million seed round

Jun 21, 2013

Investment

• Adjust
• Capnamic Ventures

$4.6m

Adeven raises $4.3 million to extend its mobile analytics platform

Jun 6, 2013

Investment

• AdDuplex
• Practica Capital

$0.5m

Windows cross-promotion network AdDuplex raises $500,000 seed round

Jun 5, 2013

Acquisition

• PlayHaven
• Staq

Not disclosed

PlayHaven boosts its analytics acquiring team behind Staq.io

Jun 3, 2013

Investment

• Akamon Entertainment
• Axon Partners Group

$3.7m

Spanish-speaking social gaming specialist Akamon raises $3.7 million

Jun 2, 2013

Investment

• AppLift GmbH
• Prime Ventures

$13m

AppLift closes $13 million series A round with Prime Ventures

May 30, 2013

Investment

• Numecent
• T-Venture

$13.6m

Deutsche Telekom leads $13.6 million round in cloud vendor Numecent

May 7, 2013

Acquisition

• iVentureCapital
• Kamicat

Not disclosed

iVentureCapital invests in German social-mobile developer Kamicat

May 6, 2013

Investment

• Atlas Venture
• DraftKings

$7m

Fan-tastic: Fantasy sports developer DraftKings raises $7 million

Mar 26, 2013

Investment

• GungHo Online Entertainment
• SoftBank

$265m

Japanese telecoms firm Softbank acquires majority stake in Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online

Feb 20, 2013

Investment

• Playnomics
• Vanedge Capital

$5m

Analytics outfit Playnomics boosted by $5 million funding round

Jan 17, 2013

Investment

• AppGratis
• Iris Capital

$13.5m

App discovery boost: AppGratis secures $13.5 million funding

Jan 8, 2013

Investment

• Chartboost
• Sequoia Capital

$19m

Chartboost leaps into 2013 with $19 million investment

Dec 18, 2012

Investment

• MunkyFun
• GREE

$3m

Stable deal: GREE invests $3 million in My Horse developer MunkyFun

Dec 13, 2012

Acquisition

• Corona Labs
• Game Minion

Not disclosed

Corona Labs acquires cross-platform cloud services provider Game Minion

Dec 13, 2012

Investment

• Applifier
• Lifeline Ventures

$4m

Mobile momentum: Applifier fuelled by $4 million funding round

Dec 7, 2012

Acquisition

• MunkyFun
• GREE

$3m

GREE switches platform development to Japan, while investing $3M in US studio MunkyFun

Nov 13, 2012

Investment

• PlayHaven
• GGV Capital

$8m

Monetisation platform PlayHaven targets international growth with $8 million investment round

Nov 9, 2012

Acquisition

• Zynga
• November Software

Not disclosed

Zynga continues march on mid-core with November Software acquisition

Nov 7, 2012

Investment

• Medialets
• Greenspring Associates

$10m

Medialets raises $10 million in Series C round

Nov 7, 2012

Investment

• Trademob
• Kennet Partners

$15m

App marketing platform Trademob raises $15 million

Nov 7, 2012

Investment

• DeNA
• Cygames

$92m

DeNA spends $92 million, buying a 20% stake in Rage of Bahamut dev Cygames

Nov 6, 2012

Acquisition

• Imagination Technologies
• MIPS

$60m

Imagination looks to an integrated chip future, buys CPU company MIPS

Nov 1, 2012

Merger

• Digital Goldfish
• Ninja Kiwi

Not disclosed

Scottish studio Digital Goldfish bagged by Ninja Kiwi

Oct 25, 2012

Investment

• Softgames GmbH
• IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft

Not disclosed

Softgames closes investment round to expand its mobile HTML5 gaming platform

Oct 24, 2012

Acquisition

• GREE
• Pokelabo

$170m

GREE pays $170 million in cash to snap up Japanese publisher Pokelabo

Oct 5, 2012

Investment

• Microsoft
• Barnes & Noble

$300m

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble complete $300 million strategic alliance

Oct 1, 2012

Acquisition

• Nexon
• gloops

$470m

Nexon acquires Japanese dev gloops in $470 million deal

Sep 17, 2012

Acquisition

• Zynga
• A Bit Lucky

Not applicable

Zynga acquires A Bit Lucky to make move on 'mid-core'

Sep 17, 2012

Acquisition

• GREE
• App Ant Studios

Not disclosed

GREE ramps up US assault with App Ant acquisition

Aug 15, 2012

Acquisition

• NaturalMotion Games
• Boss Alien

Not disclosed

Top grossing iOS game CSR Racing is generating $12 million per month

Apr 4, 2012

Acquisition

• Atari
• Glu Mobile

Not disclosed

Glu Mobile acquires Deer Hunter brand from Atari

Apr 19, 2011

Acquisition

• Jam City
• MindJolt

Not disclosed

SGN acquired by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe's MindJolt Games