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Game deals fall 89% in first half as mega transactions fail to materialize

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s a buyers market in games. Game industry investments fell 48 percent in value, and game mergers and acquisitions fell 87 percent in the first half of 2015 compared to a year ago, according to a report from tech advisory firm Digi-Capital.

Overall, game deals are down 89 percent in the first half. Tim Merel, managing director of San Francisco-based Digi-Capital, said last year’s $24 billion in mergers and acquisitions were due to some mammoth deals such as Microsoft’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft maker Mojang. There were five mega-deals in 2014 that accounted for $8.1 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.