GameDev funding, weekly round-up 💸 Feb 2nd week

Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗

🔊 Shout out on new studios, game funds… 🕹️ weekly round-up on investments 💸

1. Return Entertainment raises €5.3M in funding to create cloud-native games

2. Tripledot Studios raises $116M and receives $1.4 billion valuation

3. Krafton acquires Smash Legends dev 5minlab for $19.9 million

4. Former Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 devs form Rebel Wolves game studio 🦈

5. MixMob, a new blockchain game, has received $7M in funding

6. Animoca Brands acquires indie game studio Grease Monkey Games

7. Netmarble US studio to join Kabam in merger

8. EA developer alum Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo, & Alan Van Slyke announced the launch of their new game studio Arctic7 🦈

9. Nacon acquiring Daedalic for $60M

10. Focus acquires Leikir Studio

Cartic P, @iCartic.com