Tag Archives: acquisition

New CEO Janet Dryer takes over as equity investor purchases leading tools provider

Icelandic studio could be acquired by Glu within the next year

Unity has announced it has acquired one of its partner studios, which was previously contracted to handle the engine’s development for PlayStation platforms. UK developer Engine Room Games will now become an official Unity studio, continuing its work on Unity support for PlayStation VR, according to the tech firm’sofficial blog. …

UK studio behind tech’s PlayStation development is now part of Unity Technologies

Acqusition expected to be completed by spring 2016

Two of the biggest names in games are to become one. Activision Blizzard has announced that it will purchase Candy Crush firm King for $5.9 billion (3.8bn), in a deal unanimously approved by both boards. The sum works out to a value of $18 (11.67) per share for the latter …

Rocksmith developer renamed Ubisoft Halifax, now recruiting

Ubisoft has made another addition to its huge roster of first-party developers. The French publisher has purchased Longtail Studios, the developer who most recently worked on Rocksmith 2014 Edition. The Canada-based developer has been rebranded as Ubisoft Halifax, and will be focusing on developing mobile games. In the past, the …

Belgium firm behind gesture-tracking DepthSense technology now owned by PlayStation

Licence terms to remain unchanged following surprise acquisition