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Keywords Studios acquires The Multiplayer Group from Improbable Worlds for $97.1M

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Keywords Studios, a global provider game and entertainment services, has acquired The Multiplayer Group, a division of Improbable, for $97.1 million.

MPG is a multiplayer game development studio based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The acquisition, marks a strategic move by Keywords to bolster its Create division.

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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.