Tilting Point participated in the first funding round in its history. The publisher raised $235 million. The funds received will be used for the development of the publishing direction, M&A transactions and access to new markets and platforms.The main investor was General Atlantic with the participation of strategic investors Red Ventures and Kamerra.

Another deal with Tencent. The Chinese giant has bought a controlling stake in Stunlock Studios, which is known for the isometric desktop MOBA Battlerite. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Mobile publisher Scopely decided to support three game studios at once. The company announced an investment of $50 million.

Nexters has become one step closer to entering the stock exchange. A gaming company with Russian roots has reported attracting investments worth $50 million. This makes it possible to talk about the closure of the SPAC deal already in the third quarter.PIPE investments were received from a fund from Abu Dhabi Mubadala Investment Company and VPE Capital.

Another major Western asset will soon come under the management of Tencent. The Chinese giant announced a deal with the British Sumo Group, known among other things for Forza Horizon 2 and Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The takeover will cost the holding company $1.27 billion.

Resolution Games studio, which creates VR games, received $25 million from investors. The company plans to spend the collected money on creating games-services in virtual reality.

Chinese giant Tencent could get even bigger. According to German media, the holding aimed to buy Crytek studio for €300 million. That’s just the profile analysts doubt the reality of the deal.

Developer and publisher of mobile games SciPlay has announced the takeover of a third studio. It includes the Finnish Koukoi Games, known for the runner about Am Nyama. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

The investment fund, founded earlier this year by Ilya Eremeev and Maria Kochmola with the participation of Sergey Titov and GEM Capital, announced the first deals. The Games Fund has invested $2.4 million in four gaming companies.

A publisher of independent games with Russian roots has appeared. It’s called Ravenage. It was founded and headed by Elena Morina, who was previously responsible for marketing Super.com . The new company has a fund of $20 million.

Roblox continues to fight for its reputation. This time she signed an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment, one of the largest record companies. Together they plan to attract more musicians to the Roblox platform.

Publisher and developer of mobile games with Russian roots Green Grey has announced its second public deal over the summer. The company in partnership with game designer and producer Grigory Dorogov opens a studio for the development of casual games NPU Games.

Swedish media corporation The Modern Times Group (MTG) has announced another takeover. She was joined by PlaySimple, a mobile developer from India, known for word games Word Jam and Word Wars. The transaction amount was $359.6 million.

The new game Hideo Kojima (Hideo Kojima) can be released on Xbox. According to the VentureBeat portal, the Japanese game designer and Microsoft have signed a corresponding agreement of intent. There are few details about the game yet.

Japanese publisher KONAMI has started working with the Polish studio Bloober Team, specializing in horror games. The companies are going to “develop selected content together and share their accumulated experience.”

The largest series of investments in the history of Turkey took place. Within the framework of this round, the game startup Dream Games raised $ 155 million. The assessment of the entire studio, which had previously been noted for only one match3 game, amounted to $ 1 billion.

Finnish Remedy has signed a contract with 505 Games to develop and co-publish a multiplayer spin-off Control. For the production of the game, codenamed Condor, the companies laid a budget of € 25 million.

The Green Grey company has become more active. After two PR campaigns — involving Zurab Tsereteli in the creation of the Mountain Goat Cup for developers and launching a program about games on Muz-TV — the company announced the first deal. She invests $4 million in a joint mobile shooter of the designer of the Corsairs series and a serial IT entrepreneur. Details about the deal and the publisher itself are in our material.

Today Sony announced the acquisition of the Finnish studio Housemarque, developers of Returnal. However, the Japanese PlayStation division mistakenly mentioned Bluepoint Games, the creators of the Demon’s Souls remake, in the announcement. It seems that the Japanese company was planning to announce the purchase of this studio soon.On June 29, Herman Hulst, head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, announced the acquisition of Housemarque on the PlayStation blog.