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How Scopely tries to do game acquisitions the right way

Big game companies could probably use a manual for acquiring other studios and firms at a time when such acquisitions have reached an all-time record. In the first quarter, the money for acquisitions, public offerings, and investments hit $39 billion, more than the $33 billion for all of last year, according to InvestGame.

So it seems timely for the whole game industry to step back and think about the right way to do acquisitions. We had a couple of executives from mobile game publisher Scopely talk about this subject at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2021 event.

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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.