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Asia and tech titans keep game acquisitions alive in 2013

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Asian game companies and big technology companies have kept acquisitions of game companies going strong in the first half of 2013, according to an analysis by merger and acquisitions research firm Corum Group.

Alina Soltys, a senior analyst at the Seattle-based Corum Group, said that the top Asian tech firms collectively have about $30 billion in cash, and about half of those firms have made game-related acquisitions in the past year. Tencent is prominent in this space, but it hasn’t been making acquisitions outright. Rather, it has taken investment stakes in companies such as Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, and Epic Games.

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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.