PlayMakers raises $1.5M for user-generated content for games
Lapse raises $30M for authentic social media photo-sharing app
Playtika earmarks up to $1.2bn for mergers and acquisitions
Scuti raises $10M to boost rewards for gamers
Sony India initiative, reveals 5 India Hero Project games coming to PS5 — Big Boot Games, imissmyfriends, Underdogs Studio, Holy Cow Productions, Tathvamasi
Readygg has appointed gaming leader Shawn Layden as an adviser and raised $4 million in funding for its Web3 gaming business.
Moonhub raises $1.4M for VR training
The Collective Ace Group acquires By Aliens mobile game studio
Industry veterans co-found Simply Sweet Games with plans to “revolutionize the word game genre”
2nd week:
Game development and publishing hub The Collective Ace Group has acquired mobile game maker By Aliens
Gamecity Hamburg to provide €400,000 for game prototypes
Brain Jar Games has raised $6.7 million in a seed funding round, which the studio plans to put towards its debut project Dead as Disco
Spatial launches Wolves Den Game Jam as a kind of Shark Tank for game startups
3rd week:
Balancy raises $700K to transform game monetization and LiveOps
Battlefield creative director Craig Morrison quietly departs EA for new studio, Blue Scarab Entertainment
Respawn veteran Stig Asmussen forms Giant Skull to build AAA single-player games
emptyvessel.io a new studio from Emanuel Palalic
Roar Games has secured $1.5M in funding for its new game, Tenet of the Spark
Brain Jar raises $6.7m in seed funding
UG Labs secures $7 million to create games from speech
Kaedim secures $15 million investment for AI-powered 3D asset creation
Studio369 raises $5M for Web3 multiplayer mech MMO MetalCore
Publishing giant Scholastic to invest US$186 million in 9 Story Media Group
Metaverse and gaming technology company OneVerse has acquired online poker platform Calling Station and fantasy sports platform BatBall11.
Ex-Riot art director has started a new studio, millions of monsters.
Blockus secures $4M in pre-seed funding for its plans to transform Web3 gaming
Carbonated raises $13 million for MadWorld
4th week:
Sensor Tower has just bought rival, Data.ai
Thirdverse completes $11.3M funding round for VR games
Reef Creative Group acquires 70% stake in Bitmap Bureau.
Virtuos has acquired Beyond-FX, a VFX studio that’s worked on titles including Mortal Kombat 1 and God of War.
Behaviour Interactive snaps up Fly Studio.
Gamestream raises €4.5m.
Grom Social Enterprises to acquire Arctic7.
Turtle Beach has acquired PDP (best known for its controllers) for the value of $118 million.
Inevitable Games Fund debuts with $100M to pour into early stage Web3 gaming startups.
Industry vets form new studio Muddy Robot Games.
Shinji Mikami founds new studio, Kamuy Inc.
5th week:
Game veteran Bill Roper has unveiled Lunacy Games as a new studio working on an open world survival RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American West.
Internet Computer blockchain has raised $77M | Dfinity Foundation
Illuvium raises $12M funding for blockchain games
UK industry vets set up new studio Sunset Sugar
Shinji Mikami has reportedly opened a brand new studio called Kamuy Inc.
Take-Two to buy Gearbox from Embracer for $460 million
Sega has sold Relic Entertainment
Wargaming cofounder launches Mika Games to invest up to $50M in mobile games
Shifty Eye Games raises $580K and appoints gaming luminaries as advisers
Misfits Gaming launches game studio, Misfits Interactive
Gunzilla Games raises $30M to support Off the Grid development
Gam3s.gg has raised $2M to launch Web3 gaming superapp and $G3 tokens
Popularium secures $2m seed funding for next game by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield
Midas Games received $1 million investment led by Ludus Ventures
