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InvestGame breaks down $20.5 billion in 2020 game deals

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The game industry has seen an estimated $20.5 billion in acquisitions, investments, and IPOs in the first nine months of the year, according to game investment tracking firm InvestGame.

This figure points to the huge amount of activity that has occurred as gameplay surges during the pandemic. The data comes from InvestGame, which is run by investment specialist Sergei Evdokimov and Anton Gorodetsky. (They both work at My.Games, but the company doesn’t produce the report.) While the firm hasn’t tracked past years, the current figures show a stunning amount of investor activity in games while other sectors of the economy are falling apart.

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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.