Sony has once again grabbed the petty cash and incorporated another development studio. Said studio should primarily take care of a new Playstation multiplayer title. Sony has been on a bit of a shopping spree again, quite obviously to speed up plans for upcoming multiplayer and live service games. Sony had announced months ago that ...
Acquisitions of video game companies have been very common lately. This is especially done by Microsoft and Sony. However, acquisitions don’t always come from a hardware company. This can occasionally happen with third parties or even independent companies. For example, Devolver Digital announced earlier today that it has acquired Doinksoft. Doinksoft is known for Gato ...
Funko has cut about half the staff — including the co-founders — of Mondo, Funko’s Austin, Texas-based collectible company Purchased less than a year agoaccording to two reports and additional sources. The layoffs mark the end of a nearly two-decade run by founders Rob Jones and Mitch Putnam, whose company was best known for alternative ...
Thunderful acquires story-driven development studio Fizbin, expanding to eleven studios. Thunderful announces the acquisition of independent and award-winning game developer Studio Fizbin by its subsidiary Headup. Studio Fizbin was founded in 2011 by CEO Alexander Pieper and has two studios in Ludwigsburg and Berlin. The multiple award-winning developer created the critically acclaimed Say No More! ...
NetEase is one of the Chinese vendors that is gaining more and more attention in the global market. And today we learned what could have a big effect on its popularity and globalization: the purchase intent of Quantic Dream, developer behind games like Detroit: Become Human or the upcoming Star Wars Eclipse. The information was ...
Netflix has announced in a new blog post that they have acquired Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox. The streaming service has not announced how much the deal cost. Netflix has been slowly been building a portfolio of mobile games as an added benefit for subscribers to the online video streaming service. Netflix already owns Next ...
Image: Nintendo Earlier this year, it was announced that Nintendo would be acquiring the visual production company ‘Dynamo Pictures, Inc.’ and subsequently rename it ‘Nintendo Pictures’. Well, it looks like the acquisition has now been finalised and Nintendo has launched an official website for its new branch. As previously stated, Nintendo Pictures will be focusing ...
NetEase, the developer and publisher of numerous games including Naraka: Bladepoint and Diablo Immortal, announced their newest studio: Quantic Dream. The French developer is known for creating a series of narrative-focused games, including Heavy Rain, Detroit Becomes: Human, and Beyond Two Souls. This marks the first European company to be acquired by NetEase, as the ...
Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa, has confirmed via a press release that the company has now acquired the land opposite Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, for $40million. Nintendo will be acquiring and utilising the land by using it for additional resource and development and the current completion date for the build is December 2027. Price 5,000,000,000 ...
Sony is said to have acquired a very popular game brand from Konami for the PlayStation.
