The largest Australian indie studio Mighty Kingdom, known for the games Shopkins and Peter Rabbit Run!, has entered the stock exchange. During the IPO, the developers managed to raise $18 million, and their market capitalization was $24.5 million*.

Xsolla has announced the acquisition of Slemma, a company that analyzes data and allows you to create customizable dashboards. Now these tools will be integrated into the Xsolla platform.The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The competition between Tencent and ByteDance is gaining momentum. This time, TikTok‘s parent company has invested ¥100 million ($15.4 million) in Reworld, the local equivalent of Roblox. The deal occurred after Roblox China, supported by Tencent, received a license to work in China.

A month ago, the network started talking that Microsoft plans to buy Discord for $ 10 billion. But it looks like the deal didn’t work out. According to The Wall Street Journal, the owners of Discord have changed their minds about selling the business to an American corporation or to anyone else.

The Finnish studio Lightheart Entertainment, known for the mobile platformer Mr. Autofire, has attracted investments in the amount of $ 6.8 million. The company plans to spend these funds on developing games that combine elements of hyper-casual and midcore titles.

Pragma is a new BaaS platform for the development and support of game services. The startup raised an additional $12 million for its development. The founders of Pragma intend to create a universal solution that would help studios to operate complex cross-platform projects and not spend extra money on creating their own services.To date, the total amount of investments attracted by Pragma has amounted to $16.2 million, according to the VentureBeat portal.

In its annual report, Focus Home Interactive announced plans for further expansion. As part of this strategy, the company has created a special internal group that deals with M&A transactions. The first of them was the purchase of Streum On Studio, known for shooters in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.Necromunda: Hired Gun

Tencent continues to invest in other companies and increase its activity in the M&A market. This time, the Chinese giant acquired 20.6% of the local indie studio Surgical Scalpels. She is currently developing Boundary, a multiplayer space shooter for PS4 and PC.

AppLovin marketing platform has finally entered the stock exchange. As part of the initial public offering, the company raised $1.8 billion, and its valuation approached $30 billion.AppLovin listed its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange at a price of $80 apiece.

China’s ByteDance continues to strengthen its gaming business. The company announced that its Nuverse gaming division has acquired Beijing-based studio C4games. The latter is known for the mobile game Red Alert Online.

The industrial giant ByteDance is on the verge of entering the stock market. Chinese media report that TikTok owners are actively preparing for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is assumed that the capitalization of the company after him will reach an astronomical $ 400 billion.

Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola, with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, launched a gaming investment fund. It’s called The Games Fund. We talked to his co—founders about how he works and what projects he is ready to invest in.

The Games Fund is a new early—stage venture fund that specializes in investing in game developers from Eastern Europe. It was founded by people from MGVC, Riot Games and GEM Capital, and its size will be $ 50 million.The Games Fund notes that the size of the investment depends on the round of portfolio companies.

Epic Games has attracted additional investments in the amount of $ 1 billion. This, among other things, made it possible to strengthen cooperation with Sony, which this time invested an additional $ 200 million in the company. Epic Games’ total valuation was $28.7 billion.Epic Games announced the closing of the investment round today on its official website.

Tripledot Studios is a British mobile studio consisting of former employees of King, Facebook and other companies. This month, she raised $78 million, based on the studio’s estimate of almost $500 million.Investors in the Series A round were Eldridge, Access Industries and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Large Chinese companies continue to actively invest in the gaming industry. Bilibili, which owns the video platform of the same name, wants to acquire a stake in the studio Yoozoo Games. The total amount of the transaction is estimated at $765 million.photo: Wikimedia Commons

Play Ventures venture Fund has closed a new round of investments worth $135 million. The company, which has already invested in more than 20 studios, will spend these funds to support novice game developers.Now the total amount of funds raised has reached $175 million, according to an official statement from Play Ventures.

Gaming startup Manticore Games has closed another round of investments. The company has raised $100 million to develop its Core platform, which is positioned as “Roblox for adults”. Games created by users should become part of a single multiverse.

Epic Games is going to hold another round of investments worth $ 1.7 billion. After that, the valuation of the company, which still remains private, will reach $28 billion. Plans for an IPO are still out of the question.Bloomberg sources report that Epic Games has already reached an agreement to receive $1 billion.