Family Island is one of Melsoft's mobile games.
Family Island is one of Melsoft's mobile games.
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Moon Active acquires Family Island mobile game maker Melsoft

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Moon Active announced today the acquisition of the mobile game company Melsoft. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Melsoft has become a pretty big company thanks to the likes of Family Island and MyCafe.

The deal is part of an ongoing acquisition frenzy in games, which saw $20.5 billion in deals in the first nine months of 2020, according to game investment site InvestGame. If I had to guess, this deal would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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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.