New consequences of sanctions. Swedish gaming holding EG7 has announced plans to sell the company Innova. The deal is estimated at €32 million. This is much less than the amount for which Innova was purchased in February last year.

For three years, Embracer Group has been buying game studios and publishing houses. This turned a local Swedish developer into the largest gaming holding in Europe. The founder and CEO of the company, Lars Wingefors, announced his intention to conduct about 60 more mergers in the “coming months and years.”

The developer of Unreal Engine and Fortnite announced a new round of funding. This time Epic Games has raised $2 billion. The investors were Sony Group Corporation and KIRKBI, which owns 75% of the LEGO Group. The money will be used to create a metaverse.

Take-Two announced the sale of $2.7 billion worth of bonds. The proceeds will be part of the amount that the company plans to pay for the purchase of the Zynga mobile publisher.

The Public Investment Fund (PIF, aka Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) continues to invest in video games. He invested $235 million in Korean NCSOFT, thereby becoming its second largest shareholder.

The company SciPlay, specializing mainly in social casinos, decided to enter the hyper-casual games market. She bought a controlling stake in the Turkish studio Alictus — author of Rob Master 3D and Money Buster!.

Epic Games continues to add music assets to the portfolio. She has agreed to purchase Bandcamp, an online music store and platform for promoting indie artists. The amount of the transaction is not called.

Netflix continues to expand into the gaming industry. The company has agreed to purchase Finnish Next Games, which is responsible for the development of mobile games based on the TV series “The Walking Dead” and “Very Strange Things”. The takeover will cost Netflix €65 million.

Polish 11 bit studios acquired 40% of the shares of Fool’s Theory studio. Thus, the developers of Frostpunk intend to gain a foothold in the genre of role-playing games. The final value of the transaction may amount to $1.49 million.According to 11 bit studios, the purchase of the share will be paid in cash.

1C Entertainment, registered in Poland, which owns the rights to the King’s Bounty and Space Rangers series, announced that it has become part of the Chinese corporation Tencent (Updated: “Caliber” is not included in the deal).

Japanese startup Playco continues to receive large investments. Now the developers of instant games have been supported by Meta, which has invested $40 million in them at once.

Nacon is preparing for the largest purchase in the company’s history. The publisher has agreed to take over Daedalic Entertainment, which is currently working on a stealth action game The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. The maximum value of the transaction is €53 million.

A company with Russian roots, 110 Industries, raised a total of $10 million for game development last year. The money was also invested by billionaire Philippe Gens. At the same time, the startup itself still does not have a single released title in its portfolio.

The cost of the British mobile developer Tripledot Studios is steadily growing. As part of a new round of financing, the company raised $ 116 million, after which its valuation reached $1.4 billion. Over time, the studio hopes to become “the next Activision Blizzard.”

French publisher Focus Home Interactive has announced a new takeover. The Parisian Leikir Studio, which is currently working on Metal Slug Tactics, joined him. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Summoners Arena is a Vietnamese RPG based on blockchain, which managed to attract the attention of investors. As part of the seed round, its authors raised $3 million. The general director of Krafton also invested his funds in the project.The developers announced the completion of the round in their blog on February 11.

The time of large transactions continues. Public Investment Fund (PIF, aka Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) has acquired stakes in two Japanese companies — Capcom and Nexon. In total, he spent more than $1 billion on their purchase.

The popular puzzle Worlde will now be included in a special game subscription of The New York Times. The exact volume of the transaction is not disclosed, but we are talking about the “lower range of seven-digit amounts.”The American newspaper reported about this acquisition on its official website.

It became known about the deal between Playrix and AppQuantum. According to its terms, the authors of Homescapes become investors of the mobile publisher.