505 Games has expanded its portfolio of business ventures this week, with the news that – via parent company Digital Bros – the publisher has purchased mobile gaming studio Infinity Plus Two, best known for its work on popular g...

Take-Two Interactive has announced that the time has officially lapsed on its bid for UK studio Codemasters and as such is no longer pursuing its plan of action to purchase the developer. Take-Two – who already owns major developers R...

Niantic has announced that it has acquired community gaming platform Mayhem.gg with an eye to boosting the social and global aspects of Pokémon GO and future community-driven titles. As of this writing the terms of the sale, includin...

Nintendo has announced that it has purchased Next Level Games, acquiring 100% of its outstanding shares in order to transition the Canadian outfit into a full first-party studio. "NLG’s shares are currently held entirely by its owner-...

Tencent, a stupidly massive Chinese conglomerate, got a little bigger recently. It added Leyou's assets to its portfolio thanks to a new acquisition. Leyou likely isn't a name you recognize, but some of its studios will ring a bell. Most no...

Last month, we reported on how publisher Take-Two Interactive was in the final stages of purchasing developer Codemasters, with the latter having agreed to a non-binding offer from the former which had valued the UK studio at around $6.40-p...

In a truly surprising bit of industry news, Microsoft has purchased online tournament esports platform Smash.gg. Microsoft acquired the site for an undisclosed amount earlier in the week, with news of the purchase being broken on the Smash....

Back in September, in one of the year's most industry-shaking announcements, Microsoft confirmed that it had acquired ZeniMax Media, bringing a host of studios including Bethesda, MachineGames, id Software, Arkane, and others under the Xbox...

Xbox vice-president of gaming, Phil Spencer, has suggested that there is no truth to the recent reports that Xbox is in the market to purchase a Japanese development studio. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Spencer noted that while the ...

[Update: Take-Two Interactive and Codemasters have come to an agreement on the previously reported acquisition. Codemasters will officially become part of Take-Two's holding company next year, joining studios such as Rockstar and 2K Games. ...

These days, it feels like Xbox has its eyes set on everyone. Studios are getting gobbled up by Microsoft's gaming division, and Xbox is fresh off of its crown jewel acquisition: Buying Bethesda for $7.5 billion. A dent in anyone's wallet fo...

Anyone who enjoyed console gaming in the '90s will be more than familiar with the publisher Acclaim. First founded in 1987 by friends Greg Fischbach, Robert Holmes, and Jim Scoroposki, the New York-based outfit would go on to publish a huge...

Ever since the morning where Microsoft dropped a bigger bombshell than the nukes in Fallout's lore, everyone has made a singular sweeping statement: Xbox acquired Bethesda. That's not technically true yet. Microsoft and ZeniMax have complet...

Irreverent indie publisher Devolver Digital has announced that it has acquired Croatian video game studio Croteam, best known for the explosive Serious Sam series as well as philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle. The acquisition comes a...

Rockstar Games has added UK studio Ruffian Games to its ever-expanding portfolio, rebranding its latest acquisition "Rockstar Dundee," after the Scottish developer's home city. Rockstar Dundee joins a lengthy list of studios operating under...

Bandai Namco announced that it has acquired Canadian studio Reflector Entertainment. The acquisition is part of the publisher's ongoing efforts to produce more gaming content that is developed outside of its home territory of Japan.Founded ...

Some of us still associate Ready At Dawn with the cinematic PS4 shooter The Order: 1886, but recently, the studio has leaned into VR with games like Lone Echo and its in-development sequel Lone Echo II. That path is even more set in stone t...

Dontnod Entertainment, the French studio behind a run of great mid-budget releases, has announced that opening of a brand new studio in Montréal, Canada. Staffed by talented folk from the city itself, Dontnod Montréal is expec...

Riot Games has an answer to Minecraft and Roblox, and it's called Hytale. The creator of League of Legends and Valorant announced that it has acquired Hypixel Studios, the team behind Hytale, a bound-to-be-huge sandbox RPG that's scheduled ...

THQ Nordic continues to grow its expansive studio portfolio with the news that it has opened a brand new company in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava: Nine Rocks Games.Nine Rocks is headed up by David Durcak, formerly of Bohemia Interacti...

If you've got deep pockets and a fire burning a hole through them, you could buy up one of the most acclaimed video game studios in North America. Let me be clear though: Your pockets need to be very deep. Sony filed a form with the Un...

Vince Zampella, co-founder of Respawn Entertainment and one of the key figures in the creation and popularisation of the Call of Duty franchise, has revealed that he is stepping in to DICE LA, and will lead the studio in the creation of its...

Longtime publisher Codemasters has acquired fellow Brit developer Slightly Mad Studios, the team behind the Project CARS series. The $30 million acquisition brings into the fold Slightly Mad's 150-strong personnel, as well as three projects...

Social media megacorp Facebook has acquired Beat Games, the independent studio behind excellent virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber, as part of its upcoming VR initiative Oculus Studios."Today we’re announcing that Beat Games is jo...

British publisher Rebellion has announced that it has acquired the "brand and portfolio" of iconic developer Bitmap Brothers. For you younglings, The Bitmap Brothers was a small but highly-regarded studio who plied their wares in the mid-'9...