Monumental has acquired Kongregate, the longtime game portal and publisher specializing in web and mobile games. This marks Monumental’s latest acquisition after Game Circus, and after buying Crowfall back in 2021.
Kongregate was founded way back in 2006 and has been offering up a number of web games since then, before moving into publishing. Most of the games that they hosted were in Adobe Flash or HTML5 and Javascript, but they moved into publishing mobile games as well as PC and console titles. New submissions stopped in 2020 but the website featured over 120,000 games and over 30 mobile games.
The company has been sold several times, originally being sold to GameStop and then to Modern Times Group (MTG). The Monumental deal involves combining Monumental and Kongregate in exchange for a 30% stake in the newly formed Monumental-controlled company. The deal involves over 40 mobile titles and expands Monumental/s capacity in the mobile space.
“Monumental is poised to leverage the extensive experience in traditional and mobile gaming that the Kongregate team brings. CEO Monty Kerr will oversee the combined company, promising a future where both Monumental and Kongregate can thrive under a unified vision,” said a press release on the deal.
Monumental was formed back in 2020, and one of the reasons many MMO fans may have heard of the company was its acquisition of Crowfall from ArtCraft back in December 2021. Crowfall’s servers were shut down in late 2022, with the team painting this not as an end, but as the start of the game’s new beginning.
"We're going to use this time to map out the future of the game. We have yet to determine what that looks like, but we are investing in and rethinking every part of the game - from the core technology and tools to art, design, and gameplay. Nothing is off the table.
We'll share the plan with the community as it shapes up.”
Crowfall has remained offline since and Monumental hasn’t announced plans for the game since, though a Crowfall page remains on its site.
