The biggest investments in game companies in 2018.
The biggest investments in game companies in 2018.
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Digi-Capital: Game investment doubles previous record at $5.7 billion in 2018

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Investments in game companies hit a record $5.7 billion in 2018, or more than twice the previous record set in 2017, according to advisory firm Digi-Capital. Game acquisitions also happened at a blistering pace.

Digi-Capital’s Games Report Q1 2019 reported that Epic Games’ $1.25 billion raise was the biggest round for a game company in 2018, and it was also the largest non-IPO games investment of all time. The only larger single amount raised by a games company was when Netmarble Games held its IPO in 2017. Even that record might not survive given Fortnite’s extraordinary performance.

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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.