In April 2021, the company was acquired by Electronic Arts and subsequently consolidated under EA Mobile.

[5] In January 2010, Niccolo de Masi joined Glu Mobile as the President and CEO.

[8] Glu Mobile bought Gamespy Technologies (the entity responsible for GameSpy multiplayer services) from IGN Entertainment in August 2012,[9] and proceeded in December to raise integration costs and shut down servers for many older games, including the Star Wars: Battlefront series, Sniper Elite, Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Neverwinter Nights, with no warning to developers or consumers.

"[13] In April 2015, Chinese company Tencent paid $126 million for a 15% stake in Glu Mobile.

[16] On December 22, 2016, it was announced that Glu Mobile had acquired the trivia game QuizUp for US$7.5 million.

[19] Electronic Arts announced in February 2021 that it plans to acquire Glu in a deal estimated at US$2.4 billion.

[20][21][22] On the same day of the announcement of the deal, it was revealed that the companies expect the acquisition to close in the second quarter of 2021.