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  • Halfbrick speeding up game porting with Onan Games acquisition
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    Halfbrick speeding up game porting with Onan Games acquisition

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    More acquisition news today as we have learned that Halfbrick Studios of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride fame have acquired Onan Games. The move gives Halfbrick control over Onan's Mandreel technology, which allows developers to create a game using C++ and then have it supported amongst iOS, Android, Flash and HTML5 without need to recode.
  • Ubisoft acquires DrawRace 2 developer RedLynx
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    Ubisoft acquires DrawRace 2 developer RedLynx

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    Ubisoft's been pretty up front about getting serious with mobile video games. It turns out the publisher wasn't kidding: the company announced today that it has acquired RedLynx, the studio responsible for the popular Trials racing games.
  • Zynga may have just acquired Astro Ape Studios
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    Zynga may have just acquired Astro Ape Studios

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    While there's no official confirmation from either Zynga or Astro Ape, it looks like the studio behind mobile social successes like Monsterz Revenge and Office Heroes has just become the latest acquisition by the social gaming giant. How do we know? Astro Ape's CEO Chieh Huang, as well as several other staffers, have just updated their Linked In profiles to show their place of employment as "Zynga NY."
  • Google buys Motorola Mobility: Could Android become an in-house exclusive?
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    Google buys Motorola Mobility: Could Android become an in-house exclusive?

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    When we talk acquisitions in the mobile space here at Gamezebo, we're usually wowed by a number like $104 million (what GREE paid for OpenFeint) or $400 million (the price paid for ngmoco last fall). But how about $12.5 billion? That's how much Google is paying to buy Motorola Mobility - and despite being 63% above stock price, I say it's going to be worth every penny. Here's why.
  • Zynga acquires Toronto-based Five Mobile
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    Zynga acquires Toronto-based Five Mobile

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    With fresh new releases like Hanging With Friends and CityVille Hometown under their belt, Zynga's made no secret about their desire to make a footprint in the social mobile landscape, just as they'd done with the world of web-based social gaming before that. The company has made yet another acquisition to bolster their mobile initiative, this time purchasing the Toronto-based mobile development firm Five Mobile.
  • RIM accquires Scoreloop for an undisclosed amount
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    RIM accquires Scoreloop for an undisclosed amount

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    With all of the big players of last year's social gaming boom on the iPhone being snapped up by larger companies this year (ngmoco was acquired by DeNA, OpenFeint was acquired by GREE), it was only a matter of time until somebody turned their attentions towards Scoreloop. According to a recent post on their developer blog, Blackberry creator RIM is that somebody.
  • EA acquires Firemint for an undisclosed amount
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    EA acquires Firemint for an undisclosed amount

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    Big name traditional publishers have been pretty skittish about jumping into the new forms of gaming over the past few years, but not Electronic Arts. But rather than try and beat the best in these new arenas, they simply buy the best. It happened in 2009 with their acquisition of Playfish. It happened in 2010 with their acquisition of Chillingo. And now in 2011? It's the popular Australian development house Firemint.
  • OpenFeint acquired for $104 million by GREE
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    OpenFeint acquired for $104 million by GREE

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    When you get as big as you can at home, it's time to go international. That certainly seems to be the case for OpenFeint. Arguably the biggest player in the US mobile social gaming market, they've just been acquired in a triangular merger by GREE, a mobile social company of similar standing in Japan.