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id Software founder's stance remains unchanged following surprise Facebook acquisition

GDC 2014: New publishing division will be run by its newly acquired studio Chunky Pig

Android firm behind games controller tech now part of Google empire

It has been confirmed that Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein developer 3D Realms has been acquired by Danish investment firm SDN Invest, SDN in the part-owner and main investor in Danish Rise of the Triad developer Interceptor Entertainment, whose chairman Mike Nielsen (also SDN’s founder and former Coolshop CEO) has now …

Deal comes less than a year after Keywords went public on London AIM

Third party app store provider Getjar has been acquired by Chinese firm Sungy Mobile. VentureBeat reports that the cash deal was worth $5.3m. Conditional share offers could see that value climb to over $50m. Sungy, which went public three months ago, is best known for its range of Go Android …

Retail giant buys adds both talent and IP to its growing games operations

Saturo Iwata has hinted that even greater reforms could be on the way for Nintendo than first thought. Speaking to The Nikkei, the Nintendo president expanded on his guidance issued earlier this week, saying that the company would even consider mergers and acquisitions as a viable strategy to stabilise the …

Mobile game and tools developer is social publisher's biggest ever purchase

Confirmed: European publisher and distributor has purchased Galaxy on Fire dev