GamesBeat panel spotlight: The next billion-dollar game-investment opportunity

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 21, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Game investments are booming again with big investors like SoftBank and Nexon picking up the mantle of aggressive acquiring and funding. SoftBank and GungHo Entertainment paid $1.5 billion for a 51 percent stake in Finland’s Supercell, the maker of Clash of Clans. And Nexon has poured money into several high-profile Western game startups.

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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.