Top 6 Game Industry Investments and Partnerships – week of April 28st, 2025
Investment round-up details from the last week of April 2025, 332#
Hey Friends, Greetings from Bangalore 💗
Investment news update from the last week of April:
MagicBlock Raises $7.5M
IXI raises $36.5M for world’s first autofocus glasses
PlatinumGames vet Taura founds new studio Eel Game Studio
True Gamers secures $5m to expand across MENA and Europe
NCSoft makes strategic equity investment in FPS studio Emptyvessel
Dream Games secures strategic investment from CVC as sole equity partner
Top Trends:
1. GTA 6 delayed to May 20262. Microsoft was top publisher on Xbox and PS stores during Q3
3. Russian government seizes former Wargaming studio Lesta for supporting Ukraine4. “Game over for the Apple tax” as US court rules publishers can freely link to off-store payments.
5. Apple has now filed its appeal to the recent court ruling that required it to open up its App Store to external payment mechanisms.
Have a great start to the week.
tCARe, CARtic P
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