The advertising company MoPub has a new owner. In the near future, instead of Twitter, it will belong to the AppLovin technology platform. The latter will give more than a billion dollars for the purchase.

The gaming industry continues to boom deals. Investment banking company Drake Star Partners estimated that $71 billion was spent on investments, public offerings and M&A agreements in the first nine months of 2021. This is 2.1 times more than in the whole of last year.

Voodoo announces the beginning of expansion into the casual games market. The French publisher acquired the Israeli studio Beach Bum. She specializes in board and card games for mobile platforms. Its monthly revenue exclusively from IAP can be about $4 million.

Netflix bought its first game studio. She became the Night School Studio, known primarily for the mystical adventure game Oxenfree. The amount and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Swedish holding Embracer Group has become the owner of another Russian studio. Through a subsidiary of Saber Interactive, he acquired the Saransk company Bytex. The transaction amount is unknown.

tinyBuild has announced the purchase of another Russian studio. Bad Pixel, the developer of the multiplayer shooter Deadside, passes into her hands. The maximum transaction amount may be $17.1 million.

Mobile developer Jam City has announced the largest funding round in the company’s history. The studio attracted $350 million from investors. Jam City has already started spending this money — she bought Ludia, known for games in the Jurassic World universe.

Mobile publisher Playtika makes its first purchase since entering the stock exchange. He announced an agreement with the Finnish studio Reworks, which developed a simulator of the designer Redecor. The maximum amount of the transaction may approach $600 million.

Keywords Studios Group of companies continues to buy game outsourcers. This time she became the owner of the Romanian AMC Ro Studio, which made art for such games as Marvel’s Spider-Man, Call of Duty and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The size of the transaction is €2.8 million.

The developer of Angry Birds decided to go shopping again. Finnish Rovio has announced the takeover of Ruby Games, the creators of the hyper-casual hit Hunter Assassin. The exact size of the transaction is not disclosed.

The St. Petersburg studio Unfrozen has raised $ 1.7 million for further development. She is known for the tactical role-playing game Iratus: Lord of the Dead. The investor was GEM Capital.

Unity has announced a new purchase. The streaming service Parsec has passed into her hands. With this deal, the company intends to expand the “cloud” capabilities of its engine.

South Korean mobile publisher Netmarble has become the owner of SpinX Games. This is a social casino developer from Hong Kong, known for the games Cash Frenzy, Jackpot World and Lotsa Slots. The size of the transaction is $2.19 billion.

Unity has announced the purchase of Interactive Data Visualization. The company is best known for the SpeedTree package, with which developers can simulate plants and the environment. The size of the transaction is not disclosed.

There is a replenishment in the Epic Games family. It was joined by Sketchfab, a platform for publishing interactive 3D models. The size of the transaction is not specified.

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.

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 video game industry has set a new record for deals. Investment banking company Drake Star Partners estimated that by July 2021, the amount spent on investments and M&A transactions turned out to be almost twice as much as in the whole of 2020.

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.