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Square Enix invests in cloud games firm Blacknut INVESTMENT NEWS

Square Enix invests in cloud games firm Blacknut

No figure placed on the deal

Keywords acquires Age of Empires Definitive Editions studio Forgotten Empires ACQUISITION NEWS

Keywords acquires Age of Empires Definitive Editions studio Forgotten Empires

No figure placed on the deal

Saudi Arabia acquires $1bn stake in Embracer INVESTMENT NEWS

Saudi Arabia acquires $1bn stake in Embracer

The country's PIF is now the second-largest shareholder in the company

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Date Type Companies involved Size
Aug 14th, 2020 investment PUBG Corp $10m
PUBG Corp invests $10m in VC firm 1Up
Aug 14th, 2020 Embracer Group Not disclosed
Embracer Group acquires a load of studios, including 4A and New World Interactive
Jul 29th, 2020 acquisition GAME Digital plc Not disclosed
Esports firm Vindex to buy Belong brand from GAME
Jul 20th, 2020 acquisition tinyBuild Games Not disclosed
Indie publisher TinyBuild buys Hello Neighbor studio Dynamic Pixels
Jul 10th, 2020 investment Epic Games
Sony 		$250m
Epic lands $250m investment from PlayStation maker Sony
Jul 1st, 2020 investment Discord $100m
Discord raises $100m to expand beyond games
Jun 26th, 2020 acquisition Keywords Studios $2.5m
Keywords snaps up development studio Coconut Lizard
Jun 3rd, 2020 acquisition Tencent
Funcom 		$201m
Funcom accepted Tencent acquisition offer earlier this year
Jun 2nd, 2020 license Codemasters Not disclosed
Codemasters lands FIA World Rally Championship IP
May 26th, 2020 investment Marvelous Entertainment
Tencent 		$65m
Tencent snaps up 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous
May 15th, 2020 acquisition Sumo Digital
Lab42 		Not disclosed
Sumo Digital acquires work-for-hire studio Lab42
Apr 30th, 2020 acquisition Goodbye Kansas Studios
Bublar Group 		$5.7m
Bublar Group snaps up Goodbye Kansas
Apr 28th, 2020 acquisition Jagex $530m
RuneScape maker Jagex has a brand new owner
Apr 28th, 2020 acquisition Not disclosed
Ziggurat Interactive acquires more than 30 games from Prism Entertainment
Apr 27th, 2020 investment Tencent
Huya 		$262.6m
Tencent buys $263m stake in Chinese streaming firm Huya
Apr 20th, 2020 acquisition Fig Not disclosed
Startup funding firm Republic snaps up crowdfunding platform Fig
Apr 7th, 2020 acquisition SteelSeries Not disclosed
SteelSeries snaps up 3D sound firm A-Volute
Mar 30th, 2020 investment Cloud Imperium $17.3m
Star Citizen developer lands another $17.25m in investment
Mar 13th, 2020 acquisition Epic Games Not disclosed
Epic Games acquires facial animation firm Cubic Motion
Mar 11th, 2020 merger Scorpius Games
Amber 		Not disclosed
Game development agency Amber is merging with independent studio Scorpius Games
Mar 10th, 2020 acquisition Not disclosed
DDM Agency has acquired Digi-Capital's data platform
Mar 6th, 2020 acquisition Not disclosed
Australian game trade bodies merge under IGEA brand
Mar 5th, 2020 Phoenix Games Not disclosed
Phoenix Games makes its third acquisition with Studio Firefly
Mar 5th, 2020 investment $1m
Esports Players League secures $1m in funding
Mar 4th, 2020 investment Labworks.io $0.5m
Voice games developer Labworks gets $640k investment
Mar 4th, 2020 investment Not disclosed
VC Jon Goldman joins Flavourworks Series A
Feb 27th, 2020 investment ROBLOX Not disclosed
Roblox now valued at $4bn
Feb 26th, 2020 acquisition Meta
Sanzaru Games 		Not disclosed
Facebook acquires Asgard's Wrath developer Sanzaru Games
Feb 25th, 2020 investment Sega Not disclosed
Sega has invested in an Indian music startup
Feb 20th, 2020 acquisition Koch Media
THQ Nordic
Voxler
Embracer Group 		Not disclosed
Koch Media has bought Let's Sing developer Voxler
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