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Unit 2 Games secures $5m investment from Makers Fund
Studio will use finance to build development platform Crayta, launching spring 2020
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NorthEdge Capital acquires Curve Digital parent Catalis
Company invests £46.6m in games group, deal values Catalis at £90m
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Hiro Capital is "determined to fill the post-seed gap" with new €100m fund
Industry veterans will invest in around 20 promising games, esports and digital sports companies by 2021
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Video sharing platform Medal.tv acquires Megacool.co
The deal adds Megacool.co's mobile sharing to Medal.tv's PC-focused platform
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Nerd Street Gamers raises $12m for building esports facilities
Will start by constructing 3,000 square foot spaces for Five Below stores
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NBA star invests to become co-owner of RektGlobal
Rudy Gobert joins already star-studded ownership team of esports organisation
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Sumo Group turns loss to profit in H1 2019
Revenue was also on the rise at Sumo, which named Ian Livingstone CBE non-executive chairman of the board
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App Annie acquires mobile analytics firm Libring
The deal will let App Annie present market data and advertising analytics side by side
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Enthusiast Gaming completes complex merger with Luminosity
Newly formed entity will be the publicly traded Enthusiast Gaming Holdings
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LVP raises $80m in seed funding for video game startups
Venture capital group prepares for its third funding wave after successfully supporting names such as Supercell, Unity
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New Kickstarter from CastAR's Jeri Ellsworth raises $560,000 on day one
Hardware engineer is now working on Tilt Five, augmented reality glasses for 3D tabletop gaming
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Unit 2 Games launches £100,000 fund indie development
Finance available to developers who want to make the first wave of games for multiplayer platform Crayta
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Manticore Games raises $30m for accessible development platform
Core platform aims to enable players to quickly and easily make high-quality games
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Immutable raises $15m for blockchain card game Gods Unchained
Australian studio will also use investment to build out its Immutable Platform toolkit
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Unity acquires deltaDNA
Engine maker says live ops analytics firm will continue to operate independently as engagement tools are integrated into Unity Engine
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Esports investment: Building resilience in a volatile space
New Wave Esports CEO Daniel Mitre on the glamour of teams versus the sustainability of platforms
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Keywords acquires TV+Synchron Berlin for €2.8m
TVS has been localising content into German for 25 years
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Swedish games industry generated €1.87bn in 2018, employs almost 8,000 people
Latest figures from Dataspelsbranschen also shows the number of companies is also on the rise
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BetaDwarf raises $6.6m to develop new loneliness-busting genre
Danish developer cites rise in loneliness around the world, looks to "invest aggressively" in friendship game
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GameStop Q2 global sales down 14% as company pushes "Reboot"
CEO George Sherman says company "acting with a sense of urgency" to "set GameStop on the correct path"
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Starbreeze applies for third extension on reconstruction period
If granted, troubled Swedish publisher would have had an entire year to avoid insolvency
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Veloce Esports headed for series A investment after angel round
Initial investors include former Liberty Global exec Eric Tveter
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Medal.tv raises $9 million in new funding
Horizons Ventures led the round, which takes social video platform to $12.5m lifetime funding
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Transperfect acquires game services firm MoGi Group
Transperfect is the biggest corporate localisation and translation company in the world
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AppLovin invests in Belka Games
Strategic stake in Clockmaker dev is AppLovin's third investment in a game developer