Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

Halfbrick Acquires Onan Games

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Halfbrick, famous for their Fruit Ninja game, has acquired Onan Games. Onan games is a cross-platform specialist that could help Halfbrick to expand its portfolio on alternative platforms.

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Zynga Interested in OMGPOP!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With OMGPOP’s DrawSomething attracting 30 million downloads in just five weeks, the company put itself in the spotlights to be acquired. One of the companies that is rumoured to be interested in OMGPOP is Zynga.

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King.com Acquires Fabrication Games

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Online game specialist King.com has started to make a move for mobile by acquiring Fabrication Games. Fabrication Games, based in Sweden, is a mobile development outfit specialized in iOS games.

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EA Acquires Bight Games

August 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has bought yet another mobile developer. This time it’s the studio that has already developed several games for EA Mobile (NBA Jam, Fleeced).

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EA Acquires PopCap Games

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has announced the acquisitioin of PopCap Games, one of the leading casual and mobile gaming studios. With the acquisition, EA extends it’s mobile/casual portfolio.

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EA to Acquire Firemint

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

EA has just announced the upcoming acquisition of Firemint Pty Ltd, the developers of successful games like Flight Control and Real Racing for the iPhone and iPad.

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PopCap Games Acquires ZipZapPlay

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

UK based studio PopCap games has acquired San Francisco based social games studio ZipZapPlay. With this acquisition, PopCap extends its Facebook portfolio as well as settles itself in Silicon Valley.

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Zynga Acquires Wonderland Software

April 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has snapped up yet another mobile games studio. This time, the giant has swallowed Wonderland Software in it’s hunger for mobile projects.

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eBay Acquires Where

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems the right time for multi-million acquisition announcements today as eBay has bought a mobile developer called ‘where’ for a massive $135 million.