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Activision Blizzard to buy King for $5.9 billion
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Does the Vivendi-proposed Gameloft-Ubisoft merger make sense?
Our Mavens talk triple French
Money For Nothing
Why Nintendo and Konami need to take heed of Nexon's cautionary tale of mobile failure
The hardest game in the world
Here Be Dragons
Tencent sets sights on Europe with majority investment in Miniclip
Miniclip? More like Moneyclip
New Networks
Sega buys Demiurge Studios and invests in Space Ape and Ignited Artists
Big push into mobile
Bubble M&a
Four years on, GREE writes off $75 million from its OpenFeint acquisition
Also drops $78 million from Pokelabo deal
Even More Dominant
Tencent rumoured to have bought China's #1 gaming website for $1 billion
Changyou hands over 17173.com
Investment
KongZhong spends $16 million on a 7% stake in Forgame
A strategic investment
Interview
2014 in Review: Chris Akhavan, Glu Mobile - Expect more M&A consolidation in 2015
Future trends from the remembrance of things past
Virtual Reality
Oculus expands into motion detection through Nimble Sense acquisition
Hand-sensing Rift attachment Kickstarter grabs VR attention
We'll acquire western devs to generate $50 million by 2018 says Reliance Games CEO
Indian outfit investing to scale up
Deal
Fuse Powered buys Corona Labs to offer a one-stop shop for mobile development and monetisation
Consolidation extended
Deal
From startup to consolidation in 2 months: Next Games buys Helsinki Gameworks
The Walking Dead dev gains talent and original IP
Curiouser and curiouser: Shanda CEO steps down with immediate effect
The saga continues
Animoca closes $10 million joint venture deal for Star Girl franchise
Crosby Capital becomes majority owner
Chart Of The Week
Five crazy deals which have inflated the games M&A bubble during 2014
Show me the profits
Deal
Chinese investment group spends $10 million to acquire Star Girl franchise for fashion retail opportunities
Animoca will continue to operate young teen franchise
Chinese publisher OurPalm says it's making a major investment into Unity
Part of a wider strategic reorg?
Deals
M&A the Chinese way: 5 surprising acquisitions of game companies
Reading between the lines
Deals
Consortium swap: 3 new investors including a textiles company step up to take Shanda Games private
Stranger and stranger
Chinese Beaujolais
Fishing Joy 3 cast its net, Changyou buys Dolphin Browser and WuShen sold in a smashing deal
Weekly taster from the Middle Kingdom
In the light of Yahoo-Flurry deal, Fiksu struts $100 million in annual sales
UA market is hotting up for M&A
Deal
Analytics acquisition: Yahoo to acquire mobile data giant Flurry
Moving on metrics
Opinion
Bull or Bubble? How to make sense of mobile gaming M&A activity
Conclusions from Digi-Capital’s Q2 Investment review
Deal
Talkweb spends $130 million to buy 90% of Papa Three Kingdoms dev HRG Tech
M&A market heating up
Deal
Kakao merges with Daum to create Korean internet powerhouse
Mobile messaging outfit valued at $3 billion
Interview
Zynga deal goes beyond the price tag - it's about putting quality first, says Torsten Reil
NaturalMotion CEO on company synergies
Perfect World spends $100 million to join group taking Shanda Games private
Complexity in China
Unity acquires player engagement platform Playnomics
Helgason: Technology to be integrated into Unity Cloud suite
Japanese, Korean and Chinese mobile market growth will drive total games industry to $120 billion by 2017
Asia is the engine, says Digi-Capital
Investment News
Forgame spends $94.2 million on a 21% stake in Tower of Saviors dev Mad Head
Consolidation China-style