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Stuart Poole, YoYo Games' general manager, and Russell Kay, CTO, will both remain at the head of the company. Update: YoYo Games confirmed the acquisition, which will form the basis for a new Opera Gaming division, which is focused on "expanding capabilities and monetisation opportunities in the gaming space." This follows the release and growth of the Opera GX browser, built with gaming in mind. has reached out to YoYo Games for more details. However, the latter was closed after just one year, as it had been putting a strain on YoYo Games' resources. Since then, the firm released an education edition of GameMaker 2, and launched a publishing arm in 2018. YoYo Games was initially acquired by Playtech in 2015, for $16.4 million. However, a GameMaker forum user did a bit of digging, highlighting that recent senior hires at YoYo Games included Opera employees, "and newly listed correspondence point to Opera's headquarters in Norway." And, as Rock Paper Shotgun reported, Companies House has documentation corroborating the information. The publication only mentioned that Playtech disposed of "all its casual and social gaming assets," not specifying who acquired YoYo Games.

The news was reported by Reuters alongside Playtech's latest financial results, with very little detail. Original story: Gambling software company Playtech sold GameMaker creator YoYo Games for $10 million.