Drake Star Partners says gaming deals topped $107 billion in 1H22.
Drake Star Partners says gaming deals topped $107 billion in 1H22.
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Drake Star Partners: Gaming M&A and investments hit 651 deals worth $107B in first half

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Game companies are still cutting a lot of deals. The first half of 2022 has seen more than 651 deals announced or closed with a disclosed value of $107 billion, according to investment bank Drake Star Partners.

That compares to 635 deals in the first half of 2021 with a total value of $60 billion, said Michael Metzger, a partner at Drake Star Partners, in an interview with GamesBeat. And all of last year saw only $85 billion in deals.

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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.