Johannes Vuorinen of Frogmind with Ilkka Paananen of Supercell.
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Supercell buys 51% of Badland game developer Frogmind for $7.8 million

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Supercell has acquired a 51 percent stake in fellow Finnish mobile game developer Frogmind, the creator of the Badland series of mobile games. Supercell paid 7 million euros, or $7.8 million, for its stake.

Johannes Vuorinen, co-creator of Frogmind's Badland.
Johannes Vuorinen, co-creator of Frogmind’s Badland.

Frogmind cofounder Johannes Vuorinen described the deal as a long-term partnership with Supercell, a fellow Helsinki-based company that has produced enormous mobile game hits such as Clash Royale and Clash of Clans. China’s Tencent acquired an 84 percent stake in Supercell earlier this year at a $10.2 billion valuation.

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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.