6 Aug 2026, 13:21 UTC35 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
📊 InvestGame Weekly Digest #31
33 deals tracked, $7m disclosed – but 29 of those are one UK grant cohort, and the week's real headline number isn't in the total.
🔥 Deal of the week: Digital Bros committed €21.5m to a WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers sequel, developed by Indolphinity in Chengdu – a new studio from the original's creative director, who left Leenzee in January. 505 Games funds and publishes; Digital Bros boug…
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31 Jul 2026, 12:32 UTC71 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Friday afternoon post for you:
📊 Gaming's public market paradox: more listings, falling stocks
Part 4 of my Q2-26 report breakdown (by Aream & Co., built on InvestGame data): public markets.
The comeback:
📈 25 deals, +67% YoY – $1.7B raised, with PIPEs driving the rebound
🔔 Liftoff's $503M IPO led the quarter
🎯 PlaySimple's ~$350M IPO announced, plus Fellowship Entertainment's planned public spin-off
The contrad…
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28 Jul 2026, 12:28 UTC75 views5 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
📊 InvestGame Weekly Digest #30
7 deals tracked this week, worth $640m combined – and that's before counting the rumour of the week.
🔥 Big one: Playtika may be selling SuperPlay to Tencent for up to $1.5B, per Calcalist. Bought for $700m in Nov'24, the studio's 2025 revenue came in 67% above the earnout baseline – so this would be a very fast, very profitable flip if it lands.
Other notable moves:
– Alpha Dog Games…
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24 Jul 2026, 12:25 UTC100 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
💰 Private capital is back in gaming – $3.1B in one quarter
Part 3 of my Q2-26 report breakdown (by Aream & Co., built on InvestGame data): private investment.
The numbers:
📈 $3.1B deployed – +492% YoY, the biggest quarterly haul in years
🔁 108 deals, roughly flat YoY – same number of checks, much bigger checks
The mega-rounds:
🚀 AppsFlyer – ~$1B Series E (AdTech), the quarter's largest
🤖 AI-native players: Gener…
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23 Jul 2026, 11:15 UTC90 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Heading to gamescom. Let's talk about the stuff that actually moves the needle.
Cologne, 24–28 August. Most of my year at MY.GAMES has been about making us faster, leaner, and more AI-native – so here's what I want to dig into:
→ R&D streamlining – less cost, more speed, faster ideation; keen to swap best practices and war stories too
→ AI that survives contact with production – across dev, BI, legal, and finance,…
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22 Jul 2026, 19:04 UTC83 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Hivemind is coming to Cologne on 26 August, and I want you in the room.
This one delivers. It's where the industry actually meets – studio and publisher decision-makers who show up to build real connections, not collect business cards.
If you're in town for Gamescom week (I am), this is the evening I'd tell you to block off. The right room. The right people. The right conversations. This might be the biggest Hivemi…
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20 Jul 2026, 15:28 UTC88 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
🤝 Gaming M&A: busiest quarter since 2022
Part 2 of our Q2-26 report breakdown – dealmaking. The Video Game Market Update by Aream & Co., built on InvestGame data.
The numbers:
📈 54 deals closed in Q2 – a post-pandemic high
💵 $2.3B deployed, on par with recent quarters
The headline deals:
🎯 Scopely closed its ~$1B acquisition of Loom Games
💼 Wemade founder's ~$0.6B stake sale announced
The real story is mid-mark…
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15 Jul 2026, 16:24 UTC106 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Back from vacation this week – and what a quarter to catch up on. 🎮
The Q2 2026 Video Game Market Update by Aream & Co., built on InvestGame data, went live last week. If you missed it too, here's why it's worth your time:
📈 $7.1B in total deal value across 187 transactions – gaming dealmaking is firmly back.
A few headlines from the quarter:
🤝 Busiest M&A quarter since 2022 – 54 deals worth $2.3B, led by Scopely…
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7 Jul 2026, 07:23 UTC113 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Wemade goes China-linked 🇰🇷→🇨🇳
Founder and chairman Park Kwan-Ho is selling his entire 39.33% stake in Wemade (KOSDAQ: 112040) to NeoPulse for ~$597m (KRW 920B), ending a 26-year run at the top.
NeoPulse is a Korean SPV owned by Hong Kong's Shengsong Investment, tied to the Alibaba ecosystem – and it'll become Wemade's largest shareholder at 40.25%.
The eye-catcher: a ~299% premium over the prior close, versus the…
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2 Jul 2026, 11:17 UTC129 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
🏰 Rush Royale just crossed $500 million in lifetime revenue.
Since launching in 2020, our tower defense hit has grown steadily to over 105 million downloads – and it's still going strong.
This year alone, we celebrated the game's 5th anniversary with a PAC-MAN™: Arcade crossover event, blending retro arcade energy with entirely new co-op mechanics.
Milestones like this belong to two groups: the development team th…
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1 Jul 2026, 16:06 UTC126 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 The biggest story this week isn't a game. It's the infrastructure underneath it.
InvestGame Weekly Digest #26 is out – 12 announced deals, $1.4B in disclosed transaction value.
Two deals defined the week:
AppsFlyer closed a $1B+ Series E at a $2.7B valuation, with Google, Meta, Moloco, and Unity each taking minority stakes. All four are major ad platforms whose own campaigns run through AppsFlyer's attribution sta…
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24 Jun 2026, 17:26 UTC138 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Odyssey raises $310M Series B to scale world simulation
US-based AI lab Odyssey has closed a $310M Series B at a $1.45B post-money valuation – led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, GV (Google Ventures), AMD Ventures, EQT, and In-Q-Tel joining in.
Alongside the round, AWS becomes Odyssey's preferred cloud provider, with the team partnering Amazon's Annapurna Labs to co-optimize world models on Trainium chips.
Founde…
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