I know. We don’t call. We don’t write. Life has been a little bananas. BUT WE’RE BACK! We’re catching up with a bunch of investment news and quick hits to set the table for a return to our regular schedule on Saturday. In this episode: Sony (finally) confirms its acquisition of Bluepoint, Netflix makes moves, and there’s some weirdness around a rumored Nintendo 4K dev kit.
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TIME STAMPS
- [00:03:18] – Investment Interlude
- [00:37:09] – Quick Hits
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INVESTMENT INTERLUDE
- NACON ANNOUNCES THE 100% ACQUISITION OF ISHTAR GAMES
- Mobile gaming company Voodoo acquires Beach Bum | TechCrunch
- About Netflix – Expanding Our Games Team With the Acquisition of Night School Studio
- We are joining the Netflix team. – Night School Studio
- Netflix launches new mobile games in Poland, Italy and Spain as a members-only perk | TechCrunch
- Welcoming Bluepoint Games to the PlayStation Studios family
- FIRESPRITE LIMITED COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF FABRIK GAMES LIMITED
- Niantic Acquires Developer Experience Leader, Hoss
- AppLovin to Acquire Twitter’s MoPub Business
- AppLovin to Acquire MoPub Business From Twitter | AppLovin
- Supersocial raises $5.2M to make games for the Roblox metaverse
- ARISTOCRAT CONTINUES TO INVEST IN EXPANDING DIGITAL GAME PIPELINE AND PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION FOR GROWTH
- Kepler Interactive, New “Super‑Developer” Group, Announces $120M Funding Round
- 1939 Games raises $5.3m to create Kards mobile game
- Game Jolt raises $2.6M to expand social platform for Gen Z gamers
- MY.GAMES VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTED $ 3 MILLION TO SUPPORT CIS STUDIOS
- Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million
- SideQuest raises $3m to fuel VR development