4th week
- MetaKing Studios raises $15M for blockchain MMO Blocklords
- Former Gameforge CEO launches Web3 publisher Eleet Games
- Firestoke raises $2.2M
- Game economics platform Machinations.io raises $3.3M
- Kongregate and Immutable X launch $40M blockchain game dev fund
- Metaverse App BUD raised $37M
3rd week
- Former King team raises $3 million to bring Bitcoin to mobile gaming
- Twitch cofounder Kevin Lin’s Metatheory raises $24M for blockchain games
- Behaviour Interactive acquired Midwinter Entertainment
- N3TWORK Studios secures $46 million for Web3 games
- Saudi Arabia’s PIF acquires 5% stake in Nintendo
- Azra Games raises $15M to take Web3 games to mainstream gamers
- Skybound Entertainment secures fresh investment from Hiro Capital, Knollwood Advisory
- Hyperlab has raised its valuation to $7.5 million following a round of seed funding
- Former Codemasters, Jagex execs establish a new studio
- Tappx acquires Fantasy Manager developer From The Bench
- Pixion Games raised over $4m to make ‘play-to-own’ battler Fableborne
- Virtuos expands in Vietnam with the acquisition of art studio Glass Egg
2nd week
- FRVR acquires F2P first-person shooter Krunker.io
- Curve Games its acquired Fiddlesticks Games
- PlayZap secured investment from Oddiyana Ventures — ♥ fellow game studio from India
- Irreverent Labs raised $40M in a round led by a16z
- Branch.gg raised $12.5M to build a web3 browser game
- StartPlaying raised a $6.5M round led by a16z
- LootRush raised $12M to remove barriers to entry to web3 games
1st week
- Embracer acquires Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix Montreal for $300m
- Untamed Planet raises $24.3M for nature-oriented NFT games
- SnackClub raises $9M for blockchain gaming in developing countries
- Zora has raised $50M from Haun Ventures to enable anyone to create NFTs
- AppLovin bought an earlier version of Wordle
- InfiniGods raises $9 million in round led by Pantera
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