Not a day without M&A news. The authors of the AppMagic mobile application market analysis platform reported on the involvement of third-party funds. The role of the investor was played by the marketing company RoasUp, specializing in the purchase of traffic from Facebook.

British Codemasters is building up its asset portfolio. She is going to acquire London-based Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has made an investment in the Scandinavian game dev. She bought more than a quarter of the Norwegian publisher Funcom.

The loudest and strangest deal of recent times. Mail.Ru The Group has announced a partnership with a certain Modern Pick. The result of the partnership is the transfer of 51% of ESforce esports organization, which owns Mail.Ru Group. The nuance is that the transaction takes place without money, and Modern Pick itself is not a well—known and popular company.

The authors of Fortnite have taken up acquisitions. Today, October 8, Epic Games announced the purchase of the Finnish company Kamu. The latter is known for the Easy Anti-Cheat service, which blocks hacking and the use of cheats in multiplayer games.

The story of Vivendi’s sale of its stake in Ubisoft has dragged on. Back on March 20, it was announced that Vivendi would get rid of the developer’s shares. But, as it became known today, the company will finally say goodbye to the assets of the authors of Assassin’s Creed only in March next year.

Two Asian dragons decided to work together. Today, on August 30, Tencent and Square Enix announced the signing of a letter of intent. Its result will be the formation of a strategic alliance of companies.

Appodeal monetization service has announced a new publishing program. This time together with the Belarusian Gismart. Companies are ready to publish casual and hyper-casual games, as well as music applications.

The company Sperasoft, whose development studios are located in St. Petersburg and Volgograd, was acquired by the service provider Keywords Studios for $ 27 million.

The Appodeal monetization platform has announced the acquisition of Corona Labs, the company that created the Corona cross-platform engine.

At an extraordinary meeting, shareholders of the Megafon operator approved the purchase of 15.2% of the Internet giant’s share capital Mail.Ru Group for $740 million.

Russian telecom operator Megafon has started preparing to buy 63.8% of the Internet giant’s management shares Mail.Ru Group. The transaction amount is less than $1 billion with the market capitalization of the IT company of $9.5 billion.

Canadian HTML5 game developer Big Viking has signed a five-year deal with comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment. Subject of the contract: creation of mobile games based on the IP publishing house.

The founders and managers of Ubisoft increased their stake in the company by 3.2%, buying 3.6 million shares from Bpifrance. They spent €122.5 million on this.

South Korean Netmarble Games is going to acquire Israeli slot developers Playtika for the sum of several billion dollars.

The developers of Toca Boca children’s games were acquired by Spin Master, a manufacturer of physical toys from Canada.

The “candy” giant King will be acquired for $5.9 billion by a company that owns the rights to brands such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.

At a press conference dedicated to the Zynga development strategy for 2014 (about it in a separate article), it became known: Zynga buys the British publisher and developer of mobile games NaturalMotion for $ 527 million.