Aream & Co. has a new report out on Q2 game deals. Source: Aream & Co.
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Game acquisitions rose in Q2 but private investments stagnated | Aream & Co.

The game industry continues to show both resilience with rising acquisitions as well as weakness with stalled private game investments in Q2, according to a report by Aream & Co.

Add to that the announcements of new layoffs — likely in the thousands — at Microsoft’s Xbox game studios this week — and you’re likely to be confused about the direction the game industry is heading. Those layoffs, of course, are terrible news in my opinion.

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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.