Top 20 Games Deals for 2012
March 29, 2012 
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| Deal No. | Amount Paid (USD) | Company | Investor/Buyer | Sector | Deal Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $500,000,000 | Double Down | International Game Technology | Games | Acquisition |
| 2 | $210,000,000 | OMGPOP | Zynga | Games | Acquisition |
| 3 | $96,000,000 | Ntreev Soft | NCsoft | Games | Acquisition |
| 4 | $85,000,000 | Trion Worlds | Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments | Games | Investment |
| 5 | $15,000,000 | Noumena Innovations | KongZhong | Games | Acquisition |
| 6 | $12,000,000 | FunPlus | GSR Ventures | Games | Investment |
| 7 | $12,000,000 | Game Closure | Consortium | Games | Investment |
| 8 | $10,000,000 | Meteor Entertainment | Benchmark Capital, FirstMark Capital | Games | Investment |
| 9 | $9,098,000 | CIB Development | Asiasoft International | Games | Acquisition |
| 10 | $8,000,000 | Machine Zone | Menlo Ventures | Games | Investment |
| 11 | $7,870,000 | Flaregames | Accel Partners | Games | Investment |
| 12 | $7,000,000 | Oberon Media (TV game division) | TransGaming | Games | Acquisition |
| 13 | $5,000,000 | Ignite Game Technologies | Undisclosed | Games | Investment |
| 14 | $5,000,000 | Red Robot Labs | Next Media | Games | Investment |
| 15 | $2,800,000 | Plumbee | Idinvest Partners | Games | Investment |
| 16 | $2,100,000 | Fight My Monster | Greycroft Partners, eVenture Capital Partners | Games | Investment |
| 17 | $2,000,000 | Grand Cru | Consortium | Games | Investment |
| 18 | $2,000,000 | Seismic Games | DFJ Frontier, Tom Matlack | Games | Investment |
| 19 | $1,400,000 | Ovelin | Consortium | Games | Investment |
| 20 | $1,000,000 | Mob Science | Consortium | Games | Investment |
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- Double Down Interactive SoldTo IGT For $500M (Northwest Innovation)
- Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP for $200 Million (AllthingsD)
- League of Legends and NCsoft’s Ntreev acquisition, this week in Korean news (Gamasutra)
- Trion Worlds Completes $85M Equity Financing (FinSMEs)
- KongZhong Corporation Announces Strategic Acquisition of Noumena, a Smartphone Mobile Game Engine Company (Games Industry)
- China Online Gaming Roundup: FunPlus, RMB 57.7B, Consolidation (Nasdaq)
- Game Closure Turns Down Facebook & Zynga To Raise $12M For HTML5 Mobile Gaming (Techcrunch)
- Meteor Entertainment Raises $10M (SoCal Tech)
- Asiasoft acquires Malaysian gaming firm (Games Industry)
- Freemium Game Dev Addmired Rebrands As Machine Zone, Lands $8M From Menlo Ventures (Techcrunch)
- flaregames Secures €6M (FinSMEs)
- TransGaming acquires Oberon Media’s TV games division for $7M (Venture Beat)
- Ignite Takes $5 Million Series C To Build World Of Warcraft For Car Racing (Techcrunch)
- Red Robot Labs Raises $5M from Next Media (FinSMEs)
- Plumbee Raises $2.8M from Idinvest Partners (FinSMEs)
- Fight My Monster Lands $2.1 Million Investment From Greycroft (PandoDaily)
- Grand Cru Raises $2M in Seed Funding (FinSMEs)
- Seismic Games Launches Social Gaming Studio, Raises $2M From DFJ Frontier (Techcrunch)
- Finnish Startup Ovelin Snags $1.4M From True Ventures To Reinvent Early Music Ed With Games (Techcrunch)
- Social Gaming Startup Mob Science Raises $1M To Make A Bet On Zynga’s New Platform (Techcrunch)