Business of Games: 🔊 Shout out to new studios, partnerships, and game fund

Investment round-up, with a list of studios that got funded in April

April 1st week:

1. Gulliver’s Games received a $1.5 million investment
2. Devolver Digital acquires indie game developer Doinksoft
3. Nodwin Gaming acquires a majority stake in full-service live media company Branded
4. Turkish developer Gleam Games receives $1m investment
5. Savvy Games Group acquires Scopely for $4.9 billion
6. Aqua has a partnership with Polygon, a casual games studio, a Web3 player profile and an embedded marketplace.
7. Turkish gaming VC firm Ludus Ventures leads $3 million investment round in Paxie Games
8. ZeniMax acquired TES Online co-developer Nemesys Games
9. Web3 accelerator Delphi Labs raised $13.5M in a funding round led by Jump Crypto

April 2nd week:

1. Bitkraft raises $221 million for second token fund
2. MPL’s game development unit Mayhem Studios raises $20 million
3. Soccer Manager creator Invincibles raises $1.2M for two new games
4. Hadi rebrands to Grand-Attic, raises $5.3 million in funding round led by Makers Fund
5. Sega agrees to snap up Rovio for $776.2M
6. Social Future raised $6M to build AI-driven virtual social platform
7. Paxie Games raised $3M in a funding round led by Ludus Venture
8. AI gaming platform Skillprint raised $3.5M in pre-seed funding
9. Reactional Music raises $2.05 million in pre-series A funding round

April 3rd week:

1. Milky Tea attracts Aonic investment
2. “Blacktop Hoops” studio announces $5.1M funding round
3. Epic Games acquired Aquiris, a Brazilian mobile game maker it will be called as Epic Games Brasil
4. Karate Combat raised $18M to fund its mixed reality, Web3-enabled sports league ahead of its May 10 $KARATE token launch
5. TreesPlease Games unveils LongLeaf Valley eco game and $8M funding
6. Elixir Games and Square Enix announced today that they’re partnering up to help boost Web3 visibility and adoption among gamers
7. World Makers receives $4m in funding
8. PlayStation acquired AAA multiplayer developer Firewalk Studios
9. Goals scored $20M Series A to develop esports ready soccer game

April 4th week:

1. Focus Entertainment snaps up sim specialist Dovetail Games
2. SuperDuperSecretCo raises $1m to make a chess battle royale game
3. Mobile games veterans raise €4m in seed funding for new studio, Cosmic Lounge
4. Animoca Brands subsidiary Tinytap accrues $8.5m investment
5. Ex-Far Cry and Battlefield developers have set up Moon Rover Games to work on a new recipe for emergent multiplayer co-op action
6. NFL partners with Mythical games, is enroute to have a Web3 and blockchain mobile game
7. Web3 gaming platform Gameta raised $5M from Binance Labs and others.
8. Virtual reality game studio Vinci Games raised $5.1M.
9. TreesPlease Games unveiled LongLeaf Valley and $8M funding
10. SuperAwesome and Yoti announce new partnership

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