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South Korea’s Gamevil expands in mobile gaming as it acquires Waplesoft

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamevil announced today that it’s acquiring South Korea’s Waplesoft for an undisclosed price.

The deal shows that game companies continue a buying spree to shore up talent in the competitive mobile games market, which market researcher Newzoo expects could generate $25 billion in revenue this year.

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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.