Modern Times Group buys Plarium for $620M
Modern Times Group has agreed to buy Plarium, the maker of RPG Raid: Shadow Legends, from Aristocrat Leisure for $620 million. MTG is acquiring...
Spectarium raises $5.3M to develop cross-platform ARPG, Myths
Spectarium has raised roughly $5.3 million (€5 million) in seed funding to develop its first cross-platform action RPG, Myths. Finnish developer’s debut title will...
Why Gigi Levy Weiss is eying NFT gaming with his $450M NFX fund
Gigi Levy Weiss has been a fixture in Israeli investments in tech companies for years. He has also invested in game companies such as...
Plarium buys Finland’s mobile studio Futureplay to expand into casual games
Plarium’s games have 390 million midcore mobile and PC players, and now it is expanding into the casual sector with an agreement to buy...
Plarium’s Raid: Shadow Legends takes collectible RPGs into mobile
Plarium has made its name creating mobile games like Terminator Genisys: Future War, and now it is continuing to diversify with the launch of...
PlayStation reclaims the crown for gaming industry spend on TV
The console brand accounts for one-third of the total advertising outlay in June. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company...
Candy crushes: King dethrones PlayStation at top of most-seen TV game ads chart
After months of PlayStation leading the chart, King is now in first place. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company...
Plarium launches story-driven puzzle game Lost Island: Blast Adventure
Plarium is known for massively multiplayer online mobile games such as Stormfall: Age of War, Terminator Genisys: Future War, Soldiers Inc., Throne: Kingdom at War, and...
Tencent is the biggest fish in the $22 billion game investment pond
In game-industry deal-making, there’s Tencent, then there’s everyone else. The Chinese behemoth led or participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games...
2018’s mobile gaming trends: Crypto, media empires, and esports
Mobile gaming is underappreciated as one of the most dynamic consumer-facing markets. It requires constant adaptation to the latest way consumers desire their media...