Mobile gaming firm Scopely is paying $3.5 billion to acquire the video game business of Niantic, including marquee asset Pokémon Go. The deal also brings titles like Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter ...

Leave it to the makers of mobile game sensation “Monopoly Go!” to do some serious wheeling and dealing. Fast-growing gaming company Scopely is clearly positioning itself to make sizable acquisitions ...

After a few weeks of rumor and talks, it has been confirmed this morning that mobile publisher Scopely will acquire Niantic Games for $3.5b. The move marks a major shift in the mobile landscape, as ...

(Reuters) - Niantic Labs said it would sell its video-game division to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion, as the U.S. augmented reality firm shifts focus to geospatial technology after ...

(Bloomberg) -- Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi ...

Popular mobile game Pokémon Go — based on the long-running media franchise, Pokémon — has been sold to Saudi-owned company Scopely in a $3.5 billion deal announced on Wednesday. Pokémon Go is one of ...

Savvy Games Group, a games and esports company that is part of the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund, has agreed to acquire mobile games studio Scopely for $4.9 billion. Founded in 2011, ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

Pokémon Go developer Niantic is reportedly considering selling its video game portfolio to Savvy Games Group subsidiary, Scopely. Whilst the deal has yet to be confirmed and neither Niantic nor ...

April 5 (UPI) --A game developer backed by Saudi Arabia is buying California-based Scopely, which is behind popular games such as Scrabble GO, Yahtzee With Buddies, and Star Trek Fleet Command.