Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion USD
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Calling the shot: The next five years at Riot Games
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Activision Blizzard sued by California over ‘frat boy’ culture
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Sega sued for ‘rigged’ arcade machine
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Humble Bundle is removing the "choose where your money goes" sliders, intending to switch to a choice between giving 5% or 15% to charity
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Epic Games paid developers about $11.7 million for the games they gave away for free on the Epic Store from December 2018 to September 2019
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Microsoft reducing Windows store cut to just 12 percent
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Epic Games has completed a $1 billion funding round at a $28.7 billion valuation, including another $200M investment from Sony
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is very excited about the Epic Games Store losing a ton of money
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and new esports venture RTS have jointly acquired the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) fighting game tournament
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Epic Games acquires Fall Guys developer Mediatonic
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Google’s Stadia problem? A video game unit that’s not Googley enough
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Embracer Group acquires Gearbox Entertainment (Borderlands), Aspyr Media (Civilization VI), and Easybrain (mobile puzzle games)
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot: The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders,...
These are large acquisitions, but Embracer Group already owns a lot:
The Group has an extensive catalogue of over 200 owned franchises, such as Saints Row, Goat Simulator, Dead Island, Darksiders, Metro, MX vs ATV, Kingdoms of Amalur, TimeSplitters, Satisfactory, Wreckfest, Insurgency and World War Z amongst many others.
With its head office based in Karlstad, Sweden, Embracer Group has a global presence through its six operative groups: THQ Nordic GmbH, Koch Media GmbH/Deep Silver, Coffee Stain AB, Amplifier Game Invest, Saber Interactive and DECA Games. The Group has 57 internal game development studios and is engaging more than 5,500 employees and contracted employers in more than 40 countries.
Articles about each of the new acquisitions on GamesIndustry.biz:
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Playtech sells YoYo Games to Opera for $10m
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Roblox raises $520 million at $29.5 billion valuation, cancels their plans for a traditional IPO and will go public via direct listing instead
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Electronic Arts reaches agreement for recommended acquisition of British racing game developer Codemasters for approximately $1.2 billion
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A case for the possible sale of Wizards of the Coast
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What happened to twelve of gaming's biggest studios after they were sold
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Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda, id Software, Arkane Studios, and more
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Ubisoft fires former Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director following an investigation
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Sony Corporation invests $250 million in Epic Games
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Ready at Dawn (developer of VR games Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat) has been aquired by Facebook's Oculus Studios
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