Wargaming tanks up its mobile arm with Boomlagoon acquisition

The publisher of World of Tanks further pushing into mobile gaming with the acquisition of the one of the studios that spun out of Angry Birds developer Rovio.

Wargaming announced today that it is scooping up mobile game studio Boomlagoon. The two companies did not announce the terms of the agreement. The Helsinki-based Boomlagoon started in 2012, and it has spent the last year working on digital-card game Spirit Hunter for iOS and Android. Now, the studio will lend its expertise toward bolstering its new parent company’s efforts in the $36.6 billion mobile gaming market as Wargaming Helsinki. World of Tanks is still one of the most lucrative free-to-play PC games in the world. It made $446 million in 2015, according to SuperData Research. But Wargaming wants more than just one big hit, and it sees mobile as an opportunity to capitalize on that.