Top 18 Game Industry Investments and Partnerships – week of March 2nd, 2025
Investment round-up details from the first week of March 2025, 317#
Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗
Investment news update, from the first week of March:
TransPerfect Acquires Technicolor Games.
NetEase vet Ozawa found Studio Sasanqua.
Lobah Game Studio secures a $12M investment.
Sandsoft plots hybrid casual expansion with three new game deals.
Tencent increases its stake in From Software parent company Kadokawa.
Auto Legends adds $1M to its funding round in the Coinbase Ventures deal.
Tripledot, is taking over the AppLovin games business - $500m in cash and $400m in shares.
Peer raises $10.5M for metaverse engine, launches 3D personal planets.
Sumo Group sells the publishing business Secret Mode for an undisclosed sum.
Forte Acquires Sealance Corp to Revolutionize Web3 Identity and Privacy.
Miniclip has acquired Lessmore, maker of Eatventure and We Are Warriors.
Visions of Mana co-director Kenji Ozawa opens a new studio after leaving NetEase.
European Investment Fund pledges over $20m to boost Nordic game development.
Rockstar Games confirmed its acquisition of the Sydney-based studio Video Games Deluxe.
Ex-Tripledot president forms Arcadia Gaming Advisors with $100m fund for mobile game companies.
Nazara Technologies Completes ₹104 Cr Sale of OpenPlay to PokerBaazi’s Parent, Moonshine Technology.
Welevel today announced that it raised $5.7 million in funding to transform procedural game development.
Autoverse Studios has announced it’s raised $1 million in strategic funding from Coinbase Ventures’ Base Ecosystem Fund, along with Operating Group and Draper Dragon.
Top Trends:
» PTW rebrands as Side.
» Godot Engine 4.4 Is Here.
» Studio Fizbin is closing down.
» StoryToys partners with LEGO and BBC for Bluey mobile game.
» Axie Infinity returns on mobile with web3 MMO Atia’s Legacy alpha incoming.
» China approves 110 new games - include 107 domestic titles and 3 foreign games.
» Publisher Acclaim is making a return, the old publisher is being resurrected from the dead.
» Activision has released teaser images on new COD game, Guitar hero mobile and and Crash Bandicoot: Brawl.
» Hasbro announced a new version of Monopoly, replaces cash and bank with a mobile app. A hybrid board game with mobile app support a physical board game.
tCARe, CARtic P
/ iCartic.com