Gaming sees record year for deals with $127B in value | Drake Star
Gaming saw 1,320 announced and/or closed deals for mergers and acquisitions as well as investments, with deal values hitting $127 billion, according to a...
Drake Star: Game deals picked up in Q3 despite economic headwinds
Game industry investments and acquisitions picked up in the third quarter after a slow second quarter despite economic headwinds, according to a report by...
Drake Star Partners: Gaming M&A and investments hit 651 deals worth $107B in first half
Game companies are still cutting a lot of deals. The first half of 2022 has seen more than 651 deals announced or closed with...
Blockchain game pitches are flooding into game VCs
Blockchain game pitches are flooding the inboxes of investors. That comes as no surprise, but the scale of the change in gaming entrepreneurship is...
Krafton believes in a tailored approach to M&A
Michael Metzger, a partner in Drake Star Partners, sat down with Damian Lee from Krafton at GamesBeat Summit 2022. They discussed the company’s IPO,...
Drake Star: Q1 game deals hit $98.7B in value, more than all of 2022
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion plan to buy Activision Blizzard and Take-Two’s $12.7 billion bid to buy Zynga pushed the first quarter toward a massive $98.7...
The DeanBeat: Acquisitions will be a game of trillions, not billions
In 2021, the total number of closed and announced deals in games reached $80.4 billion in value, according to a new report by InvestGame....
Drake Star Partners: Game deals could nearly double to $150B in 2022
Game deals are expected to nearly double to $150 billion in 2022, according to a forecast by investment bank Drake Star Partners. Unlock premium...
Drake Star Partners: Game deals topped $85B across 1,159 transactions in 2021
Game industries deals surpassed an unparalleled $85 billion across 1,159 transactions in 2021, according to a report by investment bank Drake Star Partners. The...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2022
Predictions are a dicey business. The year 2020 was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. And now I think about...