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The DeanBeat: A big week for game company acquisitions

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It was a heck of a week for game company transactions, illustrating the huge opportunities in gaming and growing investor interest — as well as the fragility of game industry jobs.

Scopely bought FoxNext Games Los Angeles and Cold Iron Studios from Disney. Under that deal, Los Angeles-based Scopely picked up 200 developers at FoxNext Games LA and 50 more at Cold Iron Studios, but then it turned around and said it is selling Cold Iron Studios because Scopely is focused today on mobile games and not PC or console games.

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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.