New Acquisition
Update: Zynga closes acquisition of Toon Blast creator Peak Games for $1.85 billion
Updated full-year guidance for Zynga coming in August 2020
New Acquisition
Com2uS acquires online Go service Tygem
"Go is a representative brain game that requires a high level of concentration and numeracy"
Acquisition
Keywords acquires development studio Coconut Lizard
Firm was previously owned by Epic
Join The Team
Facebook acquires Lone Echo developer Ready At Dawn for Oculus Studios
No figure placed on the deal just yet
Sensor Tower Acquisitions
Sensor Tower acquires StayFree and ActionDash apps to bolster its data offering
StayFree developers join Sensor Tower's product engineering team
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Games-related acquisitions down 45% year-on-year in Q1 2020
Declining activity in China across the period
New Subsidiary
Playrix welcomes Cateia Games to its Croatia team
"Becoming part of the Playrix family is a great honour for Cateia Games"
New Acquisition
Rovio acquires Darkfire Games for an undisclosed figure
It will now be known as Rovio Copenhagen
A Step Back
Double Fine Presents is "winding down" after being acquired by Microsoft last year
Its future remains uncertain
Next Steps
Apple acquires virtual reality specialist NextVR
Unwilling to discuss its reasons
Future Acquisitions
Keywords Studios is raising $122 million to purchase businesses struggling with the pandemic
"This is likely to result in an increased number of acquisition opportunities for Keywords Studios"
New Acquisition
Sumo Digital purchases Snooker 19 studio Lab42
Terms of the deal were not disclosed
Lovin Zone
AppLovin acquires Game of War developer Machine Zone
Mobile marketing firm will be moving in with the developer
Better Together
Twitter acquires playable ad outfit CrossInstall
Building a strong monetisation channel
Reshuffle
Embracer Group subsidiaries THQ Nordic and Koch Media trade IPs in new deal
Red Faction, Sacred, Risen, Painkiller and more all involved
Bolt From The Blue
Unity acquires scripting tool Bolt
"Bolt becoming an official Unity product is a major and exciting leap forward for visual scripting"
Hello Bublar
Bublar Group acquires Goodbye Kansas
For around $5.7m in shares
Acquisition
Asset firm Macarthur Fortune Holding acquires Jagex for $530 million
"The combined strength of Macarthur Fortune and Jagex will both support and enhance our strategic plan"
Scrabble Success
Scopely acquires Scrabble GO developer PierPlay
Now working on an unannounced project
Acquisition
Tencent acquires majority share of Huya
It owns at least 50.1 per cent
Candy Land
Stillfront Group acquires BitLife developer Candywriter for $74 million
Total deal worth up to $195 million including earn-out bonuses
Money Money Money
Embracer Group raises $164 million in investment
Will be used for acquisitions and expansion
Back Again
HQ Trivia makes its return a month after cancellation
The private investor is unnamed
Ar Acquisition
Niantic acquires 6D.ai to further its AR goals
No sum was disclosed
Mages;acquisition
Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million
Bolstering the mobile publisher with a raft of niche IPs
Acquisition
Miniclip acquires Derby-based developer Eight Pixels Square from Outplay Entertainment
Sniper Strike: Special Ops has cleared 35 million downloads since launch
Monopoly?
Apple could purchase Disney during stock drop, says analyst
Stock fell below $100 per share
Artomatix Acquisition
Unity Technologies acquires AI specialist Artomatix
For an undisclosed sum
Data Deal
Digital Development Management acquires Digi-Capital's data platform
No value placed on the deal just yet
International Women's Week
Women in Gaming: Why Kwalee's Verónica Miñano believes awareness needs to start at schools
"When I joined Kwalee, I was one of only two women in what was approximately a 20-person office."
Growing And Growing
Playrix acquires Armenian casual games studio Plexonic
Studio has been renamed Playrix Armenia
Phoenix Firefly
Phoenix Games acquires live-ops specialist Studio Firefly
It's the third acquisition
Tilting Timelines
Tilting Point acquires Star Trek Timelines from Disruptor Beam
Forms new studio Wicked Realm Games to run it
Give It Up
Zordix acquires Hungarian mobile developer Invictus Games
100 per cent of shares purchased by Sweden studio
Here Comes The Boom
Facebook acquires VR and Sonic Boom developer Sanzaru Games
The studio will maintain its own independence
Monopoly
Embracer Group subsidiary Koch Media acquires Let's Sing developer Voxler
Second Embracer acquisition in 24 hours
It's Alive
HQ Trivia has seemingly risen from the dead
A new potenital acquisition appeared over the weekend
Cash And Stock
Embracer Group snaps up Saber Interactive in deal worth $525 million
"Saber has been on our radar for a very long time"
Spil It
Azerion fully acquires Spil Games
It purchased the company's mobile division last year
By Thunder
Improbable acquires multiplayer service company Zeuz
The price has not been disclosed
Ubisoft Goes Idle
Ubisoft moves further into mobile with acquisition of Kolibri Games
75 per cent stake purchased
Refining Reflections
GameRefinery acquires app developer market insight firm Reflection.io
Platforms will be integrated for better analysis
Daunting Acquisition
Free Fire studio Garena acquires Phoenix Labs for an estimated $150 million
100 developers now under "Garena family"
Marvel-ous
Scopely acquires Marvel Strike Force developer FoxNext Games
Deal includes Cold Iron Studios
Stillfront Buys Storm8
Stillfront Group acquires casual developer Storm8 in deal worth up to $400 million
$300 million upfront, with $100 million if financial targets are met
Acquisition
Tencent makes initial offer to fully acquire Funcom
All shareholders have the option to accept or reject the offer
Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Games acquires German developer Sixteen Tons Entertainment for its growing development group
Emergency series creator joins the flock
Acquire, Retain, Monetise
Learn all about acquiring, retaining, and monetising users at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020
One of 15 tracks at the conference
Bytedance Levels Up
TikTok owner ByteDance picks up Beijing AI developer LevelupAI
Expanding its games portfolio even further
To Boldly Grow
Digit Game Studios founder Richard Barnwell on life after Scopely acquisition
"Our natural chemistry and shared vision made us feel like one powerful, international team from the outset and since the acquisition"