Tim Merel Archives

Digi-Capital: Investors poured $9.6 billion into game deals in past 18 months, but M&A and IPOs slowed

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 10, 2019
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Investors poured $9.6 billion into game companies in past 18 months, but acquisitions and initial public offerings (IPOs) dropped to levels not seen since...

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AR/VR’s $80 billion-plus market could split before it consolidates

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 12, 2019
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Some in the AR/VR industry see it converging into a singularity of spatial computing in one magical device, but mobile AR, smartglasses and VR...

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Record $25 billion in deals may be game industry’s Everest

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 28, 2018
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This year’s record $25 billion in game industry deals in over just 9 months could mean we’ve hit the peak of the market, as...

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An HTC Vive VR demo at the Microsoft Store.

Survey: AR/VR startups are leaving international money on the table

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 13, 2018
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The bulk of AR/VR startups aren’t selling outside their own backyards, at a time when growing revenue and extending financial runways have become critical...

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Hayden Dingman at PCWorld testing out the Oculus Quest (credit -

In 2018, VR stopped “having potential” and started being real

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 9, 2018
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The VR industry has been through quite the tempest during the past few years, and much of the rollercoaster ride of emotions and expectations...

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Oculus Quest could be the new VR class leader, but may not be a mass market catalyst

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 28, 2018
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Oculus Quest is the new class leader for premium/standalone VR, and looks like the ultimate expression of the early-stage VR 1.0 market. Combining Oculus Go...

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Mixed reality companies should embrace a ‘yes, and’ strategy to competition

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 6, 2018
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There is no theme more persistent and all-pervading in the tech world than that of the “challenger vs. incumbent” — a story we cherish...

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It’s time to embrace China’s mixed reality market

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 14, 2018
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2016 was a rocky year for the VR/AR industry worldwide as consumer adoption failed to live up to what turned out to be inflated...

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Tencent's yearly share of game investments and M&As to Q1 2018, from Digi-Capital.

Tencent is the biggest fish in the $22 billion game investment pond

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 20, 2018
3 min

In game-industry deal-making, there’s Tencent, then there’s everyone else. The Chinese behemoth led or participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games...

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AR/VR market transition begins as startups raise record $3.6 billion

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 3, 2018
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Augmented and virtual reality startups raised over $3.6 billion from venture capitalists and corporates in the last 12 months to the end of Q1...

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