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Triple-A vets set up new studio That's No Moon backed by Korea's Smilegate JOB NEWS

Triple-A vets set up new studio That's No Moon backed by Korea's Smilegate

Founding members include former Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica and Infinity Ward staff

Tencent puts down $1.27bn bid to buy UK's Sumo Group $$$$

Tencent puts down $1.27bn bid to buy UK's Sumo Group

Follows Chinese firm buying a stake in the developer in 2019

Discord acquires anti-harassment AI firm Sentropy $$$

Discord acquires anti-harassment AI firm Sentropy

No figure placed on the deal

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Date Type Companies involved Size
Jul 7th, 2021 partnership Sony Music Entertainment
ROBLOX 		Not disclosed
Roblox signs deal with Sony Music
Jul 2nd, 2021 acquisition Team17
StoryToys 		$26.5m
Team17 snaps up educational games firm StoryToys
Jul 2nd, 2021 acquisition Sony Interactive Entertainment Not disclosed
PlayStation buys PC porting specialist Nixxes Software
Jul 1st, 2021 investment Vela Games $17.3m
Vela Games lands $17.3m in Series A funding round
Jun 30th, 2021 partnership Konami
Bloober Team 		Not disclosed
Bloober and Konami team up for what's probably Silent Hill
Jun 29th, 2021 acquisition Housemarque
Sony Interactive Entertainment 		Not disclosed
PlayStation maker Sony snaps up Finland's Housemarque
Jun 23rd, 2021 acquisition Unity Not disclosed
Unity acquires 3D data company Pixyz
May 26th, 2021 investment Fnatic $17m
Esports firm Fnatic lands $17m for Asian expansion
May 26th, 2021 investment Remedy Entertainment
Tencent 		Not disclosed
Tencent has invested in Control maker Remedy
May 21st, 2021 investment Focus Home Interactive $85.7m
Focus Home Interactive has raised $85.7m
May 19th, 2021 investment Bad Robot Games $4m
Bad Robot Games lands $40m Series B investment
May 18th, 2021 acquisition Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
AT&T 		$43,000m
Report: Warner Bros games arm to split up as part of AT&T deal
May 13th, 2021 investment Dreamhaven
Lightforge Games 		$5m
Blizzard and Epic vets launch new RPG studio Lightforge Games
May 6th, 2021 acquisition Electronic Arts Not disclosed
EA snaps up Super Mega Baseball dev Metalhead
May 4th, 2021 acquisition Epic Games Not disclosed
Epic snaps up ArtStation platform
Apr 28th, 2021 investment Bonsai Collective $3.5m
Bonsai Collective lands $3.5m investment from Super.com
Apr 27th, 2021 acquisition Phosphor Games Studios
People Can Fly 		Not disclosed
Outriders dev People Can Fly snaps up Phosphor Games
Apr 23rd, 2021 acquisition Keywords Studios
Climax Studios 		Not disclosed
Keywords snaps up UK games studio Climax
Apr 21st, 2021 acquisition Focus Home Interactive Not disclosed
Focus Home Interactive snaps up Space Hulk: Deathwing developer Streum On
Apr 14th, 2021 investment Epic Games $1,000m
Epic closes $1bn funding round, Fortnite firm worth $28.7bn
Apr 13th, 2021 investment Panivox Not disclosed
Oliver Twins set up new venture Panivox to work on... something?
Apr 9th, 2021 partnership Microids Not disclosed
Microids signs publishing deal for four Smurfs games
Apr 8th, 2021 partnership DONTNOD Entertainment
PortaPlay 		Not disclosed
Dontnod is getting into third-party publishing
Apr 1st, 2021 acquisition 505 Games
3D Realms
All in! Games 		$5.9m
505 Games buys Ghostrunner IP for $5.9m
Apr 1st, 2021 partnership Microsoft $21,880m
Microsoft lands $21.9bn HoloLens contract with US military
Mar 31st, 2021 acquisition CD Projekt Red Not disclosed
CD Projekt acquires Canada's Digital Scapes, tweaks development strategy
Mar 29th, 2021 investment Konami
Nexon
Sega Sammy Holdings
Bandai Namco 		Not disclosed
Nexon has invested in Bandai Namco, Konami and Sega Sammy
Mar 29th, 2021 investment Supermassive Games
Nordisk Games 		Not disclosed
Nordisk Games snaps up 30.7% stake in Supermassive
Mar 22nd, 2021 partnership Koch Media
Starbreeze 		Not disclosed
Starbreeze signs Payday 3 publishing deal with Koch Media
Mar 18th, 2021 acquisition Keywords Studios $46.8m
Keywords enters the Australian market with Tantalus Media acquisition
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