Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

GDC: Mobile Games: A Strategic Review of the Sector

March 7th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Paul Heydon, managing director at Unity Capital, has held his keynote about the M&A and Fundings in the mobile games market. Amongst other topics, Paul speaks about the expected number of fundings and acquisitions that are about to happen in our market.

Exit Games Received $ 4.6 Million Funding

March 6th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments led the latest funding round for
German multiplayer company Exit Games. In this latest round of funding,
Exit Games received $ 4.6 million from their investors which also
include Neuhaus Partners and SMAC partners.

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Glu Co-Founder Starts D2C Games

March 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Scott Orr, co-founder of Sorrent (now Glu) has announced the line-up of his new game development studio last week called D2C Games. The focus of his products will be on social gaming and episodic content for PC, Consoles and mobile phones.

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EIDOS Acquired Rockpool Games, Ironstone Partners and SoGoPlay for

February 26th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We just received the news about EIDOS Mobile buying Rockpool Games, Ironstone Partners and SoGoPlay for

Lemonquest Acquires i4Game

February 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Lemonquest announced the acquisition of Chinese mobile games company i4Game. The acquisition allows Lemonquest access to new territories and expands its catalogue of mobile games faster. I4Game’s studio is wel advanced in mobile 3D games.

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The Twistbox Acquisition of InfoSpace Games U.S. Financial Details

February 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We reported before (and where the first) about the Twistbox acquisition of InfoSpace Games U.S. (also known as Atlas Studio). In our Q&A with Michael Steuer, VP of games for Twistbox, we didn’t get access to the financial information surrounding the deal. In the latest SEC filing from InfoSpace which we got tipped on, all information is available though. InfoSpace has bought the Atlas Studio for $ 6.3 million in July 2004. Now, barely three years later, InfoSpace sold the studio for $ 1.5 million. Of course, this is nothing in contrast to the Elkware studio that was bought at $ 26.4 million and closed in 2006.

iQ212 Launched, Focus on Casual

February 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new mobile games developer enters our arena as Rick Marazzani launched a new development company called iQ212. The company expects to release its titles on multiple platforms at the same time. Please find the full press release below.

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3GSM: IbxGames Launched

February 12th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This year at 3GSM there is a fresh mobile gaming company launching into this highly competitive market space. The company is called IbxGames and seems to fucuss on connected games mostly. The first games they will launch are Armored Forces, OGame Mobile and Wrooam.

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The Australian Mobile Development Landscape

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

At Builder.AU we found a story about the development landscape in mobile technologies within Australia. With over 50 developers active in that area, many things are happening there, especially within mobile games.

EA’s Ubisoft Dilemma

February 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The guys over at Gamasutra have published an excellent editorial about what might or might not happen between EA and Ubisoft and the impact it might also have on EA Mobile and Gameloft in such a case. The editorial is closed with some financial data about Vivendi, but lacking any real info about Vivendi Mobile’s achievements.