Comments on: Over $150M invested in Europe into social games, VWs, casual MMOs & games

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:28:07 +0000

In 2008, the big winners on the net where social networks and gaming. I think in 2009 these two will merge even in Europe, with new players joining the party, like MegaZebra (www.megazebra.com) and others. Those guys are focused on Europe and will give US entrants a run for their money.

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By: Nic Brisbourne

Nic Brisbourne — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:40:22 +0000

Good list Adam. There sure is a lot of money going to work here!

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:04:59 +0000

Great post – thanks! Its a huge sector atm isn’t it! Half of our client inquiries are about using “game techniques” (or other buzzwords) in social applications…

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By: adam

adam — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:06:40 +0000

Thanks. Great original post!

Gameforge should be on there – but I’ve never been able to find figures for them (they’ve kept it quiet). I knew about Bigpoint, I covered them last month – not sure why I didn’t catch them in my export for this list :( Doh!

Others – will add (along with some others peopel have emailed me. First email was within an hour or so of posting :) – thanks, Steve!)

By: Jussi Laakkonen

Jussi Laakkonen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:52:44 +0000

Adam, excellent work! I was about to embark on trying to capture more European funding deals into my table, but superb that you got on it immdiately!

There are some deals out there are missing from your list:
- Sulake (18 M€ Jan-05 and 6 M€ Jul-06)
- Stardoll ($4m Feb 06)
- Gameforge (German, not sure if there are figures, but it was from Accel Partners)

Realtime Worlds is in my opinion a “core gamer” MMO developer/operator, and I omitted it from my list similarly to Trion, who’ve raised 100 M$.

This info needs some some wiki-style co-op to maintain. Would a public access google/zoho spreadsheet do it?

P.S. Talking about money, I wonder how Bigpoint’s 70M€ buyout escaped larger scale media attention http://bit.ly/4io4mC.