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Why game acquisition and financing numbers show reasons for optimism | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The story of gaming in 2022 will be known as one that started out with so much promise and wound up with dashed hopes. Yet I believe that gaming is still fundamentally healthy as the world teeters along a sharp edge when it comes to the economy.

The numbers that game out this week — including those released today by M&A advisory firm Quantum Tech Partners — chronicled unprecedented growth in merger and acquisition transactions. Quantum Tech Partners cofounder Alina Soltys said in an interview with GamesBeat that M&A deals topped $106.4 billion, up 110% from the prior year.

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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.