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MFUSE ACQUIRED BY GAMING SUPPLIER NEKTAN
Deal for mobile sportsbook specialist follows Nektan’s £5m fundraising round
Gibraltar-based online casino, skill and lottery games developer Nektan has acquired mobile gaming ?rm Mfuse for an undisclosed sum. Nektan, which has mobile game distribution deals in place with the likes of William Hill, Norsk Tipping and Scienti?c Games, completed the deal after concluding a £5m funding round. The acquisition, which had been under discussion for almost four months, will see all 50 Mfuse employees, including senior management, remain in place at the ?rm’s London office. Nektan, whose most successful products include online slot games and scratch cards, said it had recognised the need to grow its production and engineering capability, and identi?ed Mfuse as an “ideal ?t” to aid its expansion. It said the acquisition creates the
egaming industry’s “largest independent creator and distributor” of multi-channel device agnostic gambling games. Gary Shaw, CEO at Nektan, said of the announcement: “We are thrilled to be welcoming the talented and capable Mfuse team to Nektan. They will be a perfect complement to our existing teams in Gibraltar and the US.” “Together we will be able to fully realise the market opportunity to create and deliver industry-leading games content for mobile and touch devices,” Shaw said. Mfuse chief executive Geoff Read added he was excited to be joining Nektan and said they would be “quickly adding value to their global content deals”. “With our combined expertise we will be working on a new range of innovative product variants that I look forward to announcing at a later date,” he said.
to its social casino portfolio, taking full ownership of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) mobile and social games. Playtech has bolstered its mobile live dealer offering with the launch of its Mini Baccarat and Ultimate Blackjack games. Lottomatica has announced the launch of Evolution Gaming’s Live Casino Hold’em table, the first AAMS-certified variant of the game to go live in Italy. Sheriff Gaming has released its first mobile slots, with the Amsterdam Masterplan and Spartania now available across all smartphones and tablets. Microgaming has announced the launch of a new fast-fold eight-player heads up game on its MPN network. Leander Games has launched its online slots portfolio in the Belgian market after sealing a supplier deal with land-based operator Circus Groupe.
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