Japanese mobile game developer and publisher Dwango has announced that the company is to acquire an 80 percent stake in fellow Japanese developer Spike. The remaining 20% of the company will be split off into a new company called Spikey (ow).
Spike developes console games, and a previous acquisition in April saw Dwango take a controlling share in Chunsoft, also a developer of console games. The two companies seem to have some hit games, and there is the expectation that Dwango will be releasing them on mobiles…
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