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.

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.

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.

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.

A new deal on the gaming market of Belarus. GEM Capital, an investment company with Russian roots, has become a partner of Weappy Studio in Minsk. She invested $1.4 million in the authors of the This Is the Police series.

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.

Dapper Labs, a company known for the CryptoKitties game, is developing a new blockchain project. It’s called NBA Top Shot, its audience is approaching the one million mark and investors believe in it. In the latest funding round, Dapper Labs raised $305 million. We tell you how it happened.

The Canadian publisher Graffiti Games, specializing in small and easily recouped titles, received investments of $ 1.5 million. This amount will be spent on publishing games from independent developers.Blue Fire

Nordisk Games continues to invest in game developers. This time, the Danish company acquired 30.7% of the indie studio Supermassive Games. She is known for the horror Until Dawn and The Dark Picture Anthology series of games.Nordisk Games, which is part of Nordisk Film, announced the deal on March 29.

Overwolf startup continues to develop its platform, which allows you to create and install mods and applications for games. Together with the launch of the new SDK, the company announced the attraction of investments in the amount of $52.5 million. She hopes to become a YouTube for modders.According to GamesBeat, the main investors in Round C were Griffin Gaming Partners and Insight Partners.

Beamable, which filed for bankruptcy last October, is doing well now. The authors of Star Trek Timelines received $5 million from investors. The company is going to spend this money on the development of its technology for servicing Unity-based game services.

Artie continues to develop a platform for instant games with support for not only JavaScript and HTML5, but also Unity. The startup has raised $10 million from investors, including the founders of Zynga and Shutterstock. The developers also plan to release the SDK.Investors include Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer, YouTube co—founder Chad Hurley, and Thirty Five Ventures, co-founded by basketball player Kevin Durant.

Consisting of veterans of the gaming industry, Mountaintop studio has attracted $ 5.5 million in investments to develop its first project. It is headed by the co-founder of Oculus, and the company itself works completely remotely.Mountaintop managed to raise funds from an unnamed group of investors, friends and family members of the developers.