Top 14 Game Industry Investments and Partnerships – last 2 weeks of Jan 2025
Investment round-up details from the last 2 weeks of Jan 2025, 305#
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Investment news update, from last 2 weeks of Jan:
Nazara acquires two games from developer ZeptoLab
Hamilton raises $1.7M to tokenize real-world assets on Bitcoin
Social games platform Little Umbrella lands $2 million in funding
Paper Boat Apps teams up with Mattel to bring Barbie to Kiddopia
Former Gearbox president Steve Gibson launches Cooldown Games
Pixion receives further $12.4m investment for web3 RPG Fableborne
The Sandbox acquires dev partner QED, forming The Sandbox Romania
Pocket Worlds acquires Infinite Canvas to drive AI-powered UGC gaming
Nodwin Gaming acquires esports broadcaster StarLadder for $5.5 million
Nazara raises Rs 495 Cr from Arpit Khandelwal and Mithun Sacheti-led Axana Estates
Google Acquires Vive Engineering Talent for $250M, Raising Questions About HTC’s Next Move
Pixel Worlds and Tiny Troopers maker Kukouri is no longer making games, and has sold its IP to fellow Finns Social First
BFI invests another £2m in UK's independent screen sector - Fireblade Software, Hazimation, Hyper Luminal, Keelworks, and Wired Productions all secured funding
Virtuos, a leading video game development company, today announced a significant expansion into Europe and North America through the acquisitions of Abstraction in the Netherlands, Pipeworks Studios (Pipeworks) in the US, and a majority stake in Umanaïa Interactive (Umanaïa) in Canada.
Top Trends:
» Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise
» Marvel Snap secures new publisher Skystone Games after "surprise" takedown
» Dream Games seeks $2.5 billion in debt and equity to double valuation
» Guillemots and Tencent might create new outfit with Ubisoft assets
» Epic Games Store will finally launch third-party mobile games
» OpenAI just launched Operator, their first real AI agent
» Activision donates $1M to support fire relief in LA
» Telegram signs exclusivity deal with TON
» EA will shut down Origin later this year
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