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Riot Games’s most popular video game, League of Legends
The mathematics of fair play in video games

Video games generate worldwide annual sales of about €140 billion. With millions of people confined at home with time to spare, the current pandemic m(...)

Andrew Day, chief executive of Keywords Studios
Dublin-based Keywords Studios makes second acquisition this week

Keywords Studios, an Irish-headquartered video gaming firm that listed in London four years ago, has made its second acquisition of the week, after co(...)

Andrew Day: “Sperasoft adds considerably to our engineering services division, which we intend to continue to build organically and through acquisition”
Irish game developer Keywords Studios buys US firm in $27m deal

Keywords Studios, an Irish-headquartered video gaming firm that listed in London four years ago, has acquired Sperasoft in a $27 million (€23m) deal.(...)

A still from the Madden NFL computer game
Electronic Arts creates new American football video game

Electronic Arts, maker of the FIFA and Sims video games, is creating a new e-sports football competition that will allow players to compete on behalf (...)

Both Keyword Studios and Spov have worked on the “Call of Duty” series
Dublin video games service firm Keywords buys Spov for £1.2m

Dublin-headquartered video games service provider Keywords Studios has acquired animation and digital design firm Spov for £1.2 million (€1.4 million(...)

Online marketplace Etsy set up its Irish operation in 2013. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Starting up for global success

The stereotypical view of an FDI company is of a large global enterprise which announces the creation of hundreds if not thousands of new jobs in a la(...)

Tencent is to buy a majority stake in the Finnish maker of the mobile game Clash of Clans from Japan’s SoftBank for $8.6 billion, in a deal that will turn the Chinese technology company into an international online gaming superpower
Tencent to buy majority stake in ‘Clash of Clans’ maker

Tencent is to buy a majority stake in the Finnish maker of the mobile game Clash of Clans from Japan’s SoftBank for $8.6 billion, in a deal that will (...)