InvestGame is counting up the deals of the game industry.
InvestGame is counting up the deals of the game industry.
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The DeanBeat: Acquisitions will be a game of trillions, not billions

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

In 2021, the total number of closed and announced deals in games reached $80.4 billion in value, according to a new report by InvestGame. And in just one month in January, we have already exceeded that with more than $85 billion in announced deals.

Microsoft’s $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, Take-Two Interactive’s $12.7 billion purchase of Zynga, and Sony’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie will inspire even more deals to come, InvestGame predicted. And Drake Star Partners estimates we’ll cross $150 billion in deals in 2022. And that will mean something shocking for both gamers and game developers: change is coming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.