Game industry deals dropped 81% in value in 2015
The game industry saw a big drop in both investments and merger activity in 2015, sending deal values back to 2007 levels, according to...
Game-software revenues to grow from $90B in 2016 to $115B by 2020
Tech advisor Digi-Capital expects the game-software industry to grow 22 percent from $90 billion a year in 2016 to $115 billion a year by...
Digi-Capital unveils its first global best-in-class AR/VR benchmarks
Digi-Capital has completed the first technical benchmarking of augmented reality/virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMD) globally, and we would like to thank the AR/VR CEOs and CTOs...
It’s a new ice age — for game-industry deals
The first nine months of 2015 were brutal for games deal makers, with total deal value (in dollars) across investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&As),...
The DeanBeat: Two decades of work and $1B in sales put Israel’s game industry on the global map
TEL AVIV — Israel’s 200 game companies are expected to generate $1 billion in mobile and social gaming revenue in 2015, up 25 percent from...
How one Israeli investor overcomes fears and continues to invest in games
TEL AVIV, Israel — Investors are still afraid of investing in games because they don’t know how to pick hits. But one Israeli investor...
The DeanBeat: As consoles age, PC gaming’s resurgence becomes more obvious
As the global game industry makes its way toward $100 billion in sales, the growth is happening on all fronts. Mobile either has or...
Game deals fall 89% in first half as mega transactions fail to materialize
Game investments fall 48% as game IPOs go quiet.
Fewer venture capitalists are betting on game companies
Mobile and development tools are getting most of what's left.
Mobile, augmented reality games set to become dominant market forces by 2018
Digi-Capital founder and managing director Tim Merel opens the first GamesBeat Summit with predictions on the share of mobile and augmented/virtual reality game markets through the year 2020.