There was again news this morning that another casual game developer has been acquired by a large media organisation – in this case Tap Tap (and others) app maker Tapulous was acquired for an undisclosed amount by Disney. Further, Techcrunch reported over the weekend that giant social gamer Zynga had a ’secret’ injection of capital from none other than Google itself.
It seems investment in the casual gaming sector is really starting to speed up each month, with substantial sums trading hands and strategic positioning occurring between large digital companies like Google, Yahoo, Softbank and Disney’s Interactive Media Group.
To keep track of this, I’ve decided to crowd-source a list of investments made over the past 12 months in these firms – as Crunchbase doesn’t break down these firms into specifically mobile/social and casual gaming. I am keen to see how this increases, and get other opinions on whether these are worthy investments and are they paying too much (or too little) to get part of the action.
This table is below – to help me out and edit please click here and click on the ‘edit this page’ link:
Further reading and links below:
SmartCompany – Google invests $US200 million in social gaming company as industry heats up
TechCrunch - Tapulous Acquired by Disney
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