Mobile developer and publisher G5 Entertainment has acquired the rights to two hidden object games from Artifex Mundi studio — Nightmares from the Deep and Kate Malone. G5 paid $600k for them.

The French gaming company Ubisoft has acquired a local studio 1492 Studio, known for a series of episodic dating simulators Is It Love? for mobile platforms.

Unity Technologies has acquired the ProBuilder tool. ProBuilder is designed to create levels on the Unity engine. The tool was included in the official Unity development kit.

Swedish media corporation The Modern Time Group (MTG) acquires the publisher of mobile and social games Kongregate for $55 million.

The Chinese media giant Tencent and its partners have agreed with the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank to purchase a controlling stake in the Finnish studio Supercell.

The Chinese Zhejiang Century Huatong Group, specializing in the manufacture of plastic seals for cars, is buying a mobile game development company CMGE for $ 1 billion.

GSN Games, a company specializing in the development and publication of gambling mobile games, has acquired the Spanish studio Gamedonia.

The year of major deals continues. American Churchill Downs Incorporated, engaged in a wide range of gambling and horse racing, is in the process of buying Big Fish Games. The transaction amount may reach $885 million.

PlayFirst, a developer and publisher of casual games from San Francisco, has absorbed a small startup Big Head Mode (formerly GameFace). The goal is to increase the effectiveness of targeting and cross-advertising campaigns.

The Japanese publisher acquired 20% of the company that created Rage of Bahamut, and spent almost $ 100 million on it. 

The Japanese giant of the social mobile games industry GREE has made another step in the development of Western markets. The company acquired a studio from San Francisco – App Ant Studios.

The social giant recently bought Wild Needle studio for an unknown amount, which developed games for a casual female audience. 

The creators of Angry Birds, the most downloaded mobile game and, there is such a suspicion, the most popular game of the last five years in general, announced that their new project will be a remake of the popular puzzle, and not the original title. 

The truth is told: “appetite comes with eating“: less than a month after the OMGPOP takeover, Zynga is already in search of another prey. But this time she is ready to spend much more than $180 million.

The creators of angry birds recently took under their wing the gaming division of a company well known for its series of popular graphics accelerator tests.