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Drake Star Partners: Game deals could nearly double to $150B in 2022

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Game deals are expected to nearly double to $150 billion in 2022, according to a forecast by investment bank Drake Star Partners.

The report noted that gaming mergers and acquisitions, private financing, and public offerings have already exceeded all of last year’s $85 billion in just January alone, said Michael Metzger, partner at Drake Star, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.