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Storm8’s journey from a Facebook gaming startup to a $300 million acquisition

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Storm8‘s years of making mobile games paid off this week when Stillfront Group agreed to buy the Redwood City, California-based company for $300 million in cash and stock.

The deal says a lot of things about the value that a small team can create in the $100 billion mobile game industry (well, at least according to AppAnnie’s forecast). For Stillfront, it represents yet another bet on mobile games after the Swedish company’s acquisitions of Kixeye and Goodgame Studios.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.