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Our new Opera GX browser hit 7 million MAUs in December, 2020, up 350% year over year, while YoYo Games' GameMaker engine achieved 400K new registered creators in 2020. GameMaker Studio2 is best-in-class game development software, and lowers the barrier to entry for anyone to start making their games and offer them across a wide range of web-supported platforms, from PCs, to, mobile iOS/Android devices, to consoles.'Īnnette De Freitas, Head of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, Opera Gaming, added: 'Gaming is a growth area for Opera and the acquisition of YoYo Games reflects significant, sustained momentum across both of our businesses over the past year. We're at the brink of a shift, when more and more people start not only playing, but also creating and publishing games. Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browsers at Opera, said: 'With Opera GX, Opera had adapted its proven, innovative browser tech platform to dramatically expand its footprint in gaming.

The tuck-in acquisition represents the second building block in the foundation of Opera Gaming, a new division within Opera with global ambitions and follows the creation and rapid growth of Opera's innovative Opera GX browser, the world's first browser built specifically for gamers.

20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA), the browser developer and consumer internet brand, today announced its acquisition of YoYo Games, creator of the world's leading 2D game engine, GameMaker Studio 2, for approximately $10 million.

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