Bad Robot Games, the gaming division of the J. J. Abrams film company, has closed a Series B funding round. The studio received more than $40 million from investors, including Tencent.

Accendo Capital, one of Remedy‘s investors, has sold 500,000 shares of the Finnish hits forge to Tencent. This is 3.8% of Remedy’s outstanding shares and votes.

Game Taco has announced the acquisition of the publisher WorldWinner, which allows users to place bets and earn real money in mobile and browser games on popular quizzes and IP. The previous owner of the company was Sony. Now Game Taco and WorldWinner will work together to develop a single platform for organizing gaming tournaments.Game Taco announced this yesterday in an official press release.

Today it became known about the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, which may also affect WB Games. There are no specifics on this issue yet, but some media outlets report that the Warners gaming division will be divided into separate studios, and not all of them will come under the wing of the new company.Mortal Kombat 11

Indie publisher Devolver Digital is on the verge of entering the stock market. According to The Telegraph, the company intends to list on the London Stock Exchange. As a result, the publisher’s capitalization will amount to £1 billion ($1.4 billion).

Czech studio MADFINGER Games, known for the Shadowgun and Dead Trigger mobile shooters, has received investments worth €5 million ($6.08 million). The money was provided by Nuverse, the gaming division of the Chinese giant ByteDance.

The owners of PUBG have announced the purchase of a new studio. The South Korean company Krafton has signed a deal with Dreamotion — local developers of mobile games. The parties did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.

A new “unicorn” has appeared on the NFT gaming market – Animoca Brands, which today specializes in blockchain games and the release of its own tokens. The Hong Kong-based company has attracted investments of $88 million, based on an estimate of $1 billion.Animoca Brands announced this today on its official website.

Swedish Embracer Group continues to buy studios en masse. Now four companies have joined the ranks of the holding at once, three of which have come under the control of THQ Nordic. Below is a brief overview of acquisitions.

The Swedish Stillfront Group has replenished the portfolio. A studio with Ukrainian roots, Game Labs, known for the strategic games Naval Action and Ultimate General, came under the leadership of the company.

Zynga has decided to diversify its portfolio with marketing assets. It includes the Chartboost platform, specializing in mobile advertising and monetization. It cost $250 million.

Indie studio Metacore has again received a large tranche from Supercell. This time, the Finns opened a credit line for her for $ 180 million. The money will be used to scale Merge Mansion, a project combining merge mechanics with meta in the spirit of Homescapes.

African mobile publisher Carry1st received $6 million in investments, including from Riot Games. With this money, the company hopes to attract developers from all over the world to the local market.

ArtStation has joined the Epic Games family. That’s how today, on April 30, both companies announced a deal that took place, according to which the developer of Unreal Engine becomes the owner of a social network for digital artists.

Glu Mobile has officially joined Electronic Arts. The entire transaction cost the company $2.4 billion. Thus, a major publisher plans to significantly expand and strengthen its mobile direction.Glu Mobile’s business was valued at $2.1 billion, but the studio had another $364 million in its accounts.

Hyper-casual publisher Rollic Games, part of Zynga, has announced a new purchase. The Turkish studio Uncosoft — the authors of the famous TikTok “runner in heels” High Heels! – passed into his hands.

The developer and publisher of social casinos Huuuge Games has decided to diversify its gaming portfolio. The company acquired the rights to the free-play match-3 game Traffic Puzzle from the Polish studio Picadilla. The purchase amount is $38.9 million.

Polish studio People Can Fly has already made its second purchase in the last few days. This time we are talking about Canadian outsourcers Game On Creative, who are engaged in motion capture, cinematic videos, animation and audio.

Bonsai Collective is a studio founded by producer Overcooked! and The Escapists 2, — received $3.5 million. The publisher acted as an investor Super.com .