Sony Pictures Entertainment became the owner of GSN Games. She received this gaming asset by buying out the Game Show Network (GSN).

Unity Technologies has its second major purchase in recent times. Its assets include ChilliConnect, a creator of tools for managing online projects.

Animoca Brands has acquired the entire promotional package of Gamma. The latter is the author of the GammaNow computing application.

THQ Nordic has another acquisition. The new asset of the publisher was the German studio Piranha Bytes, the creator of Gothic, Risen and ELEX.

In the coming weeks, Rockstar Games will close the deal to acquire the Indian studio Dhruva Interactive. Now the developer is owned by the Swedish publisher Starbreeze AB.

The amount of the transaction is not called.

We are talking about a minority investment in Hatch.

Valve Corporation acquired the independent studio Campo Santo. This was reported by the representatives of Campo Santo on their website. The amount and terms of the transaction are not specified.

Texas-based BattleCry Studios has become part of game developer and publisher Bethesda. The only BattleCry Studios project was the BattleCry team action, which was canceled at the development stage.

The French media corporation Vivendi will not try to absorb Ubisoft for at least the next 6 months. This is stated in Vivendi’s financial report for the 3rd quarter of 2017.

Online gaming media IGN has acquired the Humble Bundle company, known for selling video game sets and other content on the principle of “pay as much as you want”.

Ubisoft will buy up to 4 million of its own shares to prevent its takeover by the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Gaming industry companies were among the high-tech businesses that were actively acquired by corporations of non-technological industries last year.

Company Wargaming.net opened an office in Copenhagen based on Hapti Studio. Co, which was previously owned by IO Interactive, and has recently been floating freely.

The Guillemot family acquired 1.75% of Ubisoft shares for an estimated €112.5 million. The purchase brought the ownership stake of Ubisoft by the Guillemot family to 15.35%, which gives it 20.02% of the shareholders’ votes.

The mobile market never tires of surprising. The time has come when game developers have started buying up marketing companies.