4th week
1.Tencent acquires Inflexion from Improbable
2. Meta, (FB) invested $40M in Tokyo-based mobile gaming company Playco
3. Backbone raises $40M to bring console and PC games to mobile
4. THQ Nordic acquires Metricminds
5. Ethlas raises $2.7M for F2P P2E mobile and PC metaverse
6. Potato Play raises $5 million, launches Merge Restaurant
3rd week
- Return Entertainment raises €5.3 million in funding to create cloud-native games
- Tripledot Studios raises $116 million and receives $1.4 billion valuation
- Krafton acquires Smash Legends dev 5minlab for $19.9 million
- Former Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 devs form Rebel Wolves game studio 🦈
- MixMob, a new blockchain game, has received $7M in funding
- Animoca Brands acquires indie game studio Grease Monkey Games
- Netmarble US studio to join Kabam in merger
- EA developer alum Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo, and Alan Van Slyke announced the launch of their new game development studio Arctic7 🦈
- Nacon acquiring Daedalic for $60M
- Focus acquires Leikir Studio
2nd week
- TLM Partners acquires Heroes & Generals business operations
- Azarus raises $4M for League of Legends trivia game overlay
- iCandy Interactive acquires 51% stake in Storms
- Shortround Games staff and tech acquired by blockchain outfit Mythical Game
- Krafton invests $6.6M to create and sell NFT avatars
- Rollic (Zynga) acquire NanoTribe
- Strider raises $3M to use blockchain DAOs to enable game creators
- Ethernal Labs raises $20M for its metaverse gaming studio
- Polygon raised a massive $450M
1st week
- Playrix invests in mobile games publisher AppQuantum
- Sandbox Acquires Brazilian Movile-Owned PlayKids to Expand in LatAm
- Voldex raises $3M to continue the expansion of its Roblox-based games
- Ex-Rockstar, Blizzard devs land $5 million to found Lost Lake Games 🦈(new studio)
- Tilting Point acquires AstroKings developer AN Games
- Gardens formed by developers of Journey, Edith Finch, and Blaseball 🦈(new studio)
- NYT bought Wordle for “low seven figures”
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