Diversification
Nexon branches out with $400 million investment into Russo Brother’s AGBO
A further $100 million set aside
Backing Blockchain
Voodoo to invest $200 million into blockchain games
Bringing blockchain to casual mobile users
On The Edge
Edge Gaming raises $10 million for user-generated content platform
Backed by Playtika
Strategic Simplification
Donut Labs raises a further $2.3 million for Kids vs Zombies
"It’s a completely different game from what it was a year ago."
Doubling Down
Vgames raises $141 million for second games investment fund
Firm to invest in game studios at various stages
Monstrous Success
Overcoming 60% ROI drop in TeaGames' Monsters: PvP Arena
Investment from Ducky and YouTube trends
Supporting Growth
Mistplay receives "majority" investment to scale play-to-earn platform
New members join the board of directors
Indie Investments
MGVC invests $2 million into Square Triangle and Talerock
Acquires minority stakes in both studios
A Joint Journey
Green Grey invests up to $1.1 million in Megu Games
The fifth Green Grey public deal in mobile games since June
More Metaverse
Azur Games invests $2 million into blockchain-based NFT metaverse Axes 2.0
$10 million reserved for future NFT projects
Plugged In
Plug In Digital raises $75 million for indie games publishing
Over 30 titles in the publishing pipeline
Where's The Hype?
Frogmind rebrands to HypeHype, Supercell invests $15 million
User-generated content platform optimised for touchscreens
Greener Good
Green Grey invests $2 million in US-based indie dev Pocket Size Games
The studio will use the investment to develop its first two projects
Israeli Investment
Voodoo makes "significant" investment into Israeli casual games developer Teskin
Developer of Jewels Planet, Jewel Empire and Candy Deluxe
Funding Fanatics
Thunderful Group acquires Robot Teddy for $13.7 million
Will lead newly established in-house investment arm, Thunderful Investment
Seeded
Order of Meta raises $1.5 million in a round led by Play Ventures
Will release its first game in 2022
Rocket Fuel
Ludus invests in three Turkish mobile game startups
Istanbul cluster is blooming
Unicorn Startup
Indian mobile esports outfit MPL raises $150 million on a $2.3 billion valuation
Reached over 85 million users worldwide
Scaling Now
Blockchain gaming platform Immutable raises $60 million
Building out its Immutable X L2 technology
Forward Looking
Green Grey invests $2.5 million into Infusion Games’ upcoming projects
Studio’s flagship title, Cyber Wars, is due to be released mid-2022
Firing Up
Play-to-earn gaming community Yield Guild raises $4.6 million
A16z and former MZ CEO Gabe Leydon invest
It's Not Unusual
Spanish casual startup Unusuall raises $3.6 million, led by Garena
Free Fire outfit makes second investment
What’s Next(ers)
Nexters' Q2 2021 bookings up 40% to $154 million
Will float via SPAC in Q3 2021
Scoped Out
Scopely invests $50 million into Omnidrone, Pixel Toys and Tag Games
The three development studios are located in Spain, England and Scotland
Early-stage Investment
The Games Fund invests in Hypemasters, Vandrouka, Purple and Jarvi Games
Eastern European mobile studios all get a financial boost
Reset Button
Love Island developer Fusebox responds to layoff claims
"Fusebox is currently consulting with its employees on a proposed change..."
New Entity
Update: Activision Blizzard clarifies stake in social casino dev Playstudios
"We received shares in the new entity and are now disclosing that..."
Buzzing
Buzz Capital invests $594,000 in Dream Harvest and Fundamentally Games
"The games sector is one of the few industries to have made huge gains during COVID…"
Boom Times
Indian esports app Loco raises $9 million via seed round
Krafton leads the investment
Gearing Up
Yield Guild raises $4 million to expand its mobile-focused blockchain gaming model
Bitkraft led the Series A
Growing Space
Quicksave Interactive raises $1.3 million to scale its HTML5 games
Konvoy Ventures led the round
527 Individual Deals
Game deals in 2021 have reached $49 billion in value so far
Drake Star Partners digs into the data
Delight
Turkish-developed mobile games accounted for 20% of US top 100
10th largest country for angel and VC investments
New Blood
Ace Games raises $7 million in seed funding
Ex-Peak co-founder starts again
Ua Expansion
Supercell lends Metacore $180 million to scale Merge Mansion
Mobile puzzle game aiming for the big league
Ready Portal One?
PortalOne raises $15 million for its mobile game-TV show mash-ups
Launching with reimagined Atari arcade games
The Start
Sega will launch its first NFTs in summer 2021
Partners with Double Jump.Tokyo
Pgc Digital #6
PGC Digital: Nick Button-Brown on doing your due diligence when raising money
"People want to get involved with the next sexy thing"
Hotting Up
Play Ventures to launch a blockchain games investment fund
Taking a stake in LuneX Ventures
On Fire
Lightheart Entertainment secures $6.8 million in Series A funding
Led by Makers Fund
Building
Hiber's funding hits $4.5 million, also adds Eros Resmini to board
Swedish UGC platform scaling
Back You Up
LEGO Ventures invests in learning platform Area9 Lyceum
Shared ideals
That's Epic
Epic raises $1 billion at a $29 billion valuation
To fuel its vision for the metaverse
Going Public
AppLovin files for IPO at a $30 billion valuation
Taising $2.1 billion
Dot Dot Dot
Tripledot Studios closes $78 million in Series A funding
Takes total raised to $86 million
Big Injection
Play Ventures secures $135 million in funding
Backing start-ups
Splash The Cash
Nexon invested $874 million in Sega Sammy, Konami, Bandai Namco and Hasbro
Best use of spare money
Money Bags
Frost Giant secures additional $5m funding
Fellow Blizzard vet James Anhalt joins the studio
Money Bags
Rec Room raises $100 million at $1.25 billion valuation
"We think that Rec Room can become an enduring large business that fuses games and social"
Show Me The Money
Incredibuild secures $140 million investment for US expansion
“With the new funding, Incredibuild is poised to expand the market opportunity"