Opera offers YoYo Games (GameMaker) news

News business Opera s’offre YoYo games (GameMaker)

Opera, the company behind the browser of the same name, announced today that it has acquired YoYo Games, the company that created the GameMaker development environment.

This time we know the transaction amount of $ 10 million. Opera’s acquisition of YoYo Games aims to strengthen the group’s gaming strategy following the launch of Opera GX, a game-optimized browser. Krystian Kolondra, Executive Vice President at Opera, explained

We are very excited to start our work with the YoYo Games team. We see the platform alongside our Opera GX game browser as an ideal acquisition to complement our global gaming ambitions. We look forward to continuing to grow Opera GX and improve GameMaker, make it more accessible to beginners, and make it the world’s first 2D game engine used by commercial studios. We also look forward to future synergies between the products of YoYo Games and Opera GX.

According to Opera, the browser is Opera GX is used by over 7 million people. Remember that the GameMaker engine is used in many titles such as: B. in Katana Zero, Nuclear Throne, Hyper Light Drifter or The Red Strings Club. Stuart Poole, CEO of YoYo Games, says:

From our initial discussions it became clear that the entire Opera team has an incredible passion for games. Since joining them last week the positive attitude and creative energy (which they have shown) has been amazing. We have always had big plans to improve GameMaker on all platforms, both to improve accessibility and to further expand the functionality for commercial studios. (…)

Via: Game cult