🔊 Shout out to new studios, and game funds… (Sept 2022)

4th week

1. Hadean raises $30 million in a Series A funding round
2. Sega partners with Double Jump Tokyo to create Sangokushi Taisen blockchain game -
3. MoonGaming and Nefta partner for Web3 strategy game Medieval Empires, F2P game with land sales
4. Animoca Brands receives $38 million from True Global Ventures
5. Panivox receives £500K grant from Innovate UK
6. Saudi state-backed conglomerate to sink $37.8 billion into video game industry The Savvy Games Group wants to acquire and develop a “leading game publisher” and make “a series of minority stake investments in key companies”. Savvy Games Group is led by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia — Mohammed bin Salman
7. MY.GAMES was sold for $642M

3rd week

1. Sceneri raises $1.5m in funding
2. Star Citizen has raised over $500m to date
3. Keywords Studios announces conditional acquisition of Smoking Gun
4. Voodoo acquires Tarboosh Games
5. Theorycraft Games raises $50 million in funding
6. Industry Vets create InfiniGods blockchain game studio
7. YouTuber Jason Yevgeniy Gastrow, aka Videogamedunkey aka Dunkey, has announced the launch of his indie publishing company, Bigmode
8. Tencent buys minority stake in Digital Confectioners
9. Immortal Game raised $13M for web3 chess
10. Random Games announced a $7.6M seed round
11. Hadean secures $30M Series A funding to create a scalable metaverse

2nd week

1. Zynga closes acquisition of Storemaven
2. Monumental acquires Boundless, its second MMO
3. Game studio Flick raises $1M
4. Ex-Gearbox and Riot devs raise $5.5M for Ruckus game studio
5. Tencent takes minority stake in Mordhau studio Triternion
6. Ruckus Games raises $5.5M
7. The Sandbox invests in Cosmo Media Labs, partners with FaZe Clan

1st week

1. Azur Games has acquired 30%of French studio Pinpin Team following an investment
2. Web3 game developer Xterio raises $40M in SAFT sale
3. Azur Games acquires Mushroom Wars development studio
4. Tencent increases investment in Ubisoft to 11%
5. Metaverse Magna raises £3.2M in latest seed funding round
6. Gameplay Galaxy raises $12.8M for Web3 competitive gaming platform
7. Netspeak Games secures $12m investment for first product launch
8. Gulliver’s Games Raised $750k Seed Investment Round
9. Animoca Brands raises $110 million in funding
10. Scopely acquires Stumble Guys from Kitka Games, check Stumble Guys rev stats
11. Revolving Games raises $13.2M to make blockchain games with ex-Rockstar cofounder Dan Houser as an adviser
12. Dropp acquires metaverse platform Phly for $25M
13. Mysten Labs raised $300M at a $2B+ valuation in a round led by FTX

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