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Game acquisitions set new record at $4B in 2012, but investments tumble 57 percent

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Game acquisitions set a new record in 2012, with a total transaction value of $4 billion, up 18 percent from $3.4 billion a year earlier. But investments in new companies fell in transaction value by 57 percent to $853 million from a year earlier, according to game-focused investment bank Digi-Capital.

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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.