Game investments and M&A totaled $17.5B across 985 deals in 2024 | DDM
As the games industry moves on from “survive til 25,” 2024 games investment and M&A data revealed recovery and improvement, according to market analyst...
Q3 game M&A strengthens for 4th straight quarter | Drake Star
Gaming merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity increased for the 4th straight quarter during the September period with $2.5B in disclosed deal value and...
Closed game deals hit record in 2023 but deal activity mixed in Q4 | Drake Star
In 2023, the value of closed game mergers and acquisitions hit a record of $86 billion, according to the Drake Star Global Gaming Report...
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. The report...
Drake Star Partners: Game deals surpassed $60B in first half of 2021
Game deals surpassed an unparalleled $60 billion in the first half of 2021, according to investment bank Drake Star Partners. Spurred by pandemic lockdowns...
Drake Star Partners: Game deals have reached a record $49B in 2021
In the first five months of 2021, the game industry has already set a record for the amount of deals in a year, with...
Playtika deal drives game acquisitions to record $25 billion this year
The total value of game industry acquisition deals has exceeded $25 billion so far this year, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. The $4.4 billion...
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),...
Five things that drove $12.5B in game company acquisitions in the past year
London-based Digi-Capital reports on what spurred gaming acquisitions.
The disasters and deal killers that can happen when selling your game company
Watch out for ego, greed, and arrogance.