Korean publisher Nexon, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has built a 33% "hostile" position in Taiwanese firm Gamania

Earlier this week, Japan’s Gree bought OpenFeint for $104 million. The nice thing about Japanese transactions is that listed companies have to give details of the transaction. Here are the details they gave about the underlying revenues and...

The acquisition of Chillingo by EA last week set tongues wagging, particularly when Angry Bird’s developer Rovio went on an aggressive PR campaign to emphasise that the rights to Angry Birds were not part of the deal....

Yesterday, I wrote a post entitled Ten games companies that are blessed. Three hours later, the rumour broke that Electronic Arts had acquired Chillingo, the British iPhone publisher that I had put on the list. The price...

I was reading the TechCrunch report of Disney’s acquisition of Playdom and this comment leaped out at me: “The sad truth is that 90% of employees got nothing immediately from this deal. 90% of Playdom employees joined...

The acquisition of Playdom by Disney is all about exploiting Disney’s IP on social plafforms. But will it work? Disney has paid $563.2 million, mainly in cash, plus a $200 million earnout for Playdom. that’s a total...

The news that 888 Corporation has spent up to $48 million on gaming company Mytopia is, at one level, no surprise. It’s all about CPA Gambling companies are experts at two things: customer acquisition and understanding legislation....