Smart Money For Zombies
Walking Dead dev Next Games raises $10 million
Existing investors double down
Real-time Approach
Canadian startup Icejam raises $2.1 million to accelerate Playable Data vision
Opening Toronto office
Deeper Pockets
Deep linking platform Branch Metrics raises $35 million
Fixing UA
Social Scene
Hammer & Chisel raises $20 million for gamer messaging app Discord
Everybody talking
Social Glue
GetSocial raises $2.5 million to fulfill demand and expand operations
Creating in-game community
Phone A Friend
Glu Mobile invests in and might acquire troubled QuizUp dev Plain Vanilla (if TV show works)
Last roll of the dice
Europe Winning
Europe creates 4 times more mobile gaming value than the US, says Supercell investor Paul Heydon
LVP's Paul Heydon bursting the VC bubble
Live Pitching
Investment experts and developers collide in a live pitching event
Five pitches, three experts, and a conference audience
Cash In
App Annie closes $63 million funding round to go more global
Gearing for IPO?
"laser-focused On Vr"
Leading Japanese developer COLOPL launches $50m VR fund
Tokyo firm investing in hardware and software
Making Tracks
King, DICE, Rovio, and Zynga vets form midcore focused Snowprint Studios
Working on Nordic-themed RPG
Ndreams Investment
VR developer NDreams closes $3m funding round, bolsters staff with senior talent
Investment to help finish development on upcoming game The Assembly
Future's Perfect
Presence Capital launches $10 million early-stage VR and AR investment fund
Investing in the vision thing
Cash Up
Finnish dev Traplight raises $1.4 million for its user-generated-focused debut Big Bang Racing
Second round closed
On The Up
Animoca Brands raises $3.5 million to expand portfolio and enter ebooks market
Brands the way
Amusing Cash
Ex-Sega president Hayao Nakayama invests in UK super startup The Secret Police
London studio is up and running
Cue Smilies
Futurefly gains more investors, taking its seed round to $3 million
Hope to shake up messaging apps
Ccp Vr Investment
EVE Online dev CCP Games raises $30 million to target VR
Venture capital and private equity firms ponying up
Measured Ambition
We invest in culture not games, says Supercell investor Index Ventures
Longterm focus
Derby Promise
UK super angel Chris Lee invests in UK studio Eight Pixels Square
Dev on the up
Big Boots
Nexon and Respawn unite to bring Titanfall to mobile in 2016
Both invest in US startup Particle City
Netease Invest
NetEase continues aggressive western expansion, investing $2.5 million in core start-up Reforged Studios
Industry veterans working on a fantasy army battler
Ready For Asia
High-profile Finns lead Koukoi Games' $1 million funding round
Frontier Accelerator leads the funding
Rocket Fuel
Mobile data outfit Adjust takes funding to $30m as it closes $17 million D round
Data at scale
Series B Success
Playlab lands $5m funding in first external investment
Monk's Hill Ventures expands Playlab's ambitions
Evolving
Mino Games closes $2.2 million funding round and launches casual-core sequel Mino Monsters 2
All systems go again
Walking With Giants
Futurefly bags $2.5 million seed funding from Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp investors
Finnish startup gets big bucks, and big experience
Bulking Up
West-to-China publisher MyGamez announces 9 million MAUs and new funding round
Growing portfolio
Eyeing Twitch
Mobcrush bags $11 million investment for mobile-first streaming
Californian startup elbows rival Twitch
Smart Move
Smartwatch specialist Everywear Games raises $2.25 million
Wearable games developer gets cash injection
Core Move
iDreamSky invests $10 million into US core dev Rumble Entertainment
Big bet
Sporty Pivot
$26 million investment turns Super Evil's attentions to eSports in Asia
Vainglory creators get a serious cash injection
Moneybags
Zeotap raises $6.4 million Series A funding
Zeotap taps investor cash
Match-$$$
Best Fiends developer Seriously raises $18 million
Brings total to $28 million
Rocket Fuel
HyprMX parent Jun Group raises $28 million
Throwing petrol on the branded ad opportunity
Sowing Seeds
Mobile strategy outfit Gunjin Games bags $1.3 million seed funding
UK developer turns heads.
First In
Klang Games bags London Venture Partners investment
Former Supercell investment finds a new project
Big Bucks
SGN bags $130 million Netmarble investment to break into East
Korean publisher invests in US outfit
Cash Injection
Marmalade scoops $2 million investment
UK cross-platform firm raises funds
A-gree-d
GREE mines SE Asian market with Touchten investment
Japanese mobile games giant gets strategic
Cash Cat
Garfield game maker Animoca Brands palms $2.3 million OurPalm investment
Latest deal in a flurry of investments
Angel Returns
Prolific investor Klaas Kersting acquires stake in ZupCat
flaregames CEO sees Argentinian promise
Expand On All Fronts
Innospark raises $6.5 million to expand into China with cross-platform midcore games
Keytone Ventures leads the round
Co-op Mode
Starbreeze invests $1.4 million in Cmune to bring FPS Payday to mobile
Reloading for another run
Apple Core?
Supercell investors fund core Barcelona dev Winko Games
Seed round raises $1.4 million
Softbank, Hard Cash
Accel sells out, allowing SoftBank to bring its Supercell stake to 73%
Supercell to remain independent despite SoftBank further growing its stake
Crossing Streams
Crossy Road devs invest $380,000 in ex-Halfbrick start-up Prettygreat
Hipster Whale co-founders gain shareholder/advisor status
Changing Faces
Backed with $4.5 million, PC legend Jon Van Caneghem goes mobile
VC Mobile Entertainment moves out of stealth.
Irish Charm
Scopely invests in Dublin dev Digit Game Studios for future strategy gaming success
Ireland's largest games developer strikes gold
Twitching
Pure-play mobile game streaming service Mobcrush raises $4.9 million
Looking to out-niche Twitch