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Game outsourcing company Keywords Studios has announced the acquisition of a new studio. Certain Affinity, a team that assisted in the development of Hogwarts Legacy, DOOM, as well as games from the Call of Duty and Halo series, among many others, has come under the company's wing

Keywords Studios has purchased the U.S.-based developer Certain Affinity for an undisclosed amount

Keywords Studios has announced the acquisition of Wushu Studios, though the financial details have not been disclosed. Established in Liverpool in 2017 by Alan McDermott, Wushu Studios offers work-for-hire services to game publishers and developers, along with porting, remastering, and live support services. The studio’s portfolio includes work on titles such as Baldur's Gate 3, Fall Guys, Forza Horizon 5, The Ascent, and State of Decay 2

Lively, a subsidiary, is undergoing a minor round of layoffs as part of a business optimization effort. According to a tip received by GamesIndustry.biz, Electric Square, a developer located in Brighton, was reportedly reducing its workforce. However, the firm clarified that the layoffs are confined to its sister studio, Lively. A company spokesperson explained that these job cuts stem from a strategic review aimed at "streamlining certain areas of [the] business," affecting a limited number of employees at Lively's Leamington-based office

Keywords Studios has announced it has reached an acquisition agreement with Swedish investment firm EQT, valued at approximately £2.2 billion, pending shareholder approval. Keywords, a company that provides integrated creative and technology services to industry giants like Activision Blizzard, EA, Epic, and Square Enix, expressed satisfaction with the terms of a recommended cash acquisition at £24.50 per share. CEO Bertrand Bodson stated, “I am extremely proud of our passionate world-class teams and the leading technology-enabled global platform we are building together, which have enabled us to develop innovative solutions and foster strategic partnerships with our clients,"

Keywords Studios will soon become part of Swedish private equity firm EQT Group. The video game outsourcer’s board of directors has now approved the final bid worth more than £2 billion.

The gaming outsourcer Keywords Studios has agreed to become part of the investment firm EQT Group. It will be integrated into EQT Group's subsidiary, called Bidco

Keywords Studios' potential takeover has been put on hold as an extension has been granted for the prospective buyer to finalize its offer. Last month, reports surfaced that a private equity company under the EQT Group was contemplating a cash acquisition bid of £25.50 per share for the firm specializing in game development services. Keywords confirmed through a regulatory notice that it is in advanced negotiations with this potential acquirer. Initially, EQT was expected to either submit a formal offer or declare its intention not to by 5pm on June 15. However, Keywords requested an extension for this deadline, which has been approved by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers

Swedish private equity firm EQT Group has proposed to acquire Irish outsourcing company Keywords Studios. As a result, the developer saw the largest increase in its share price since going public in 2013.

The Swedish investment firm EQT Group wants to buy the gaming outsourcer Keywords Studios. Recently, it sent Keywords Studios a preliminary purchase proposal that valued the company at 2 billion pounds sterling, or approximately 2.5 billion dollars

What you should pay attention to when licensing soundtracks for the game, — Svetlana Gordey and Daria Savko, specialists of the REVERA law firm, told in their column for App2Top.

Keywords Studios has made its fourth purchase in a year. The Multiplayer Group studio, specializing in the outsourcing development of multiplayer games, became part of the group of companies.

The guest of the new episode of the Games and Names podcast was Thomas Kriebernegg, co-founder of the App Radar page optimization service in app stores.

Keywords Studios has joined the list of companies that have cut staff. At the end of September, she terminated contracts with specialists who helped BioWare with game testing.

Keywords Studios continues its expansion with the acquisition of Hardsuit Labs. The US studio will join the group and strengthen its co-development capabilities.

Keywords Studios Group of companies announced the purchase of Hardsuit Labs studio, which was responsible for the development of Vampire until 2021: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2. She did not disclose the amount of the transaction.

We summed up the results of last year together with Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO and co-founder of AppFollow. He spoke about the difficulties faced by the company, as well as about the key changes in the ASO market.

Another company has joined the game outsourcer Keywords Studios. He was joined by LabCom, an agency that helps with the promotion in Italy of Ubisoft, Bethesda, Wargaming, Rockstar Games and many other gaming companies.

Keywords Studio s has one more office. A group of companies specializing in gaming outsourcing has launched a division in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Keywords Studios Group of companies is going to make its fourth purchase in a year. She agreed to purchase the Helpshift platform. If the shareholders approve everything, the deal will be closed this month.

Gaming outsourcer Keywords Studios has decided to increase its presence in the Australian market. The new studios will be owned by its subsidiary Tantalus Melbourne and will be located in Brisbane (Tantalus North) and Adelaide (Tantalus South).

The Keywords Studios group of companies is getting bigger. This time she decided to purchase the Canadian Smoking Gun Interactive. The maximum transaction amount may be $29.7 million.

Keywords Studios Group of companies has announced the purchase of the Australian Mighty Games. Under the terms of the deal, she immediately paid $4.1 million in cash and shares, and pledged to transfer the remaining $2.8 million later if the studio reaches the necessary financial indicators.

The Keywords Studios Group of companies is preparing for a new purchase. She signed an agreement with Forgotten Empires, who worked on the remasters of Age of Empires. The maximum value of the transaction is $32.5 million.

A new gaming union has appeared. Yesterday, employees of the outsourcer Keywords Studios voted unanimously for the merger.

How exactly is the process of A/B testing of visual content for app stores built in Belka Games, – in his article for App2Top.ru the leading ASO-manager of the company Anastasia Personal told.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO and co-founder of AppFollow.How did 2021 go for the company?

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Sergey Sharov, CEO and co-founder of Asodesk’s ASO solution and Angle Connect agency.

Polygon has published a lot of material about the history of the genre of hidden object games. It tells about the first projects with Hidden Object mechanics, their popularity among the casual audience and a new wave of indie developers who are trying to rethink the genre. We have chosen the main thing from the material.

Keywords Studios Group of companies continues to buy game outsourcers. This time she became the owner of the Romanian AMC Ro Studio, which made art for such games as Marvel’s Spider-Man, Call of Duty and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The size of the transaction is €2.8 million.

Experience working on icons for the game “Megapolis” in your column for App2Top.ru Ilya Klushin, a leading 2D artist at Social Quantum, shared this.

AppFollow, an application monitoring and ASO optimization platform, conducted a study of the Russian top application charts. As a result, the company has identified rating leaders in several major categories of mobile games for iOS and Android.How was the study conducted?

ASOMobile analytics service has published the final report on the mobile market for 2020. The company talked about the most profitable countries, as well as the highest-grossing applications and game categories in different stores. The material also contains data on the Russian market.General data on stores

Which categories of iOS games have the lowest share of non-branded traffic? — the analytical company ASOdesk asked this question in its research. The figures were revealed as part of WN Winter’21. We share the material prepared on the basis of the speech.

ASOdesk has published a study on the design of game pages in the App Store and Google Play. In it, she told what techniques ASO marketers most often resort to when working on icons and screenshots.

Google has slightly updated the icons in the Play Store. Thanks to the innovation, users can see whether an application is falling or growing in the charts.Now you can see an arrow under the position of the application or game in the chart.

High Voltage Software— an American studio with a 27-year history, has a new owner. The developer who participated in the creation of Fortnite, Mortal Kombat and the first Injustice will soon become part of the Keywords Studios group of companies. The deal will cost $50 million.

We continue to summarize the results of 2020 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with the CEO and co-founder of AppFollow Anatoly Sharifulin.

How to improve the position of a mobile game in the App Store and Google Play search using ASOdesk tools, — says Sergey Sharov, founder of the ASOdesk platform and the Angle Connect agency.

ASOdesk analysts conducted a study where they compared the ratio of organic and inorganic traffic in 15 categories of mobile games. Now the company advises developers of arcades and races to promote titles through ASO, and creators of casinos and card games — through advertising.

The troubles of the Swedish Starbreeze do not end there. She planned to find a publisher for Payday 3, but negotiations with partners were disrupted by COVID-19. Now Starbreeze needs almost $27 million to save the situation.

Today, June 17, at 13.00 Moscow time, a new broadcast will take place on WN Hub. This time it is dedicated to gaming ASO. Application page optimization specialists in the App Store and Google Play will discuss the market situation, the latest trends, common pitfalls in the niche.

Daria Pavlyuk — head of Search Optimization studio ZiMAD — in her column for readers App2Top.ru she told how she had built the ASO direction in the company in a new way, as well as how this direction works today.

Keywords Studios group has conceived a massive purchase of gaming outsourcers affected by COVID-19. For this purpose, she needs to raise $122 million.

Can the translation of the game description increase the conversion to downloads? The answer to this question in the material for App2Top.ru The game studio Full HP tried to answer. Margarita Shvetsova from the online service Nitro, in which Full HP translates the texts of its products, helped her in this.

Keywords Studios Group of companies has expanded its portfolio of gaming outsourcers. She made three acquisitions worth $12.1 million at once.

One tool for analyzing the mobile market has become more. AdvertMobile has presented an analytical solution with ASO tools and market insights.

Fortnite has been among the top ten highest-grossing games on iOS since April last year. What is the situation with the project from the point of view of store optimization, The ASO Project specialists decided to find out. We share a brief version of their analysis.

This September, Apple Watch will receive a new operating system, and with it a store and smartphone-independent applications. Anatoly Sharifulin from AppFollow told why this is good.

In the spring, ASOdesk introduced a new traffic analytics tool for iOS applications – ASO Dashboard. It’s coming out for release this week. Dmitry Kofman, ASO Director at Gambino Slots, talks about the tool itself and working with it.