Roblox CEO and founder Dave Baszucki rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Roblox CEO and founder Dave Baszucki rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
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The DeanBeat: Do game company valuations make sense?

We’re getting a good picture of what games are worth because so many transactions are happening in the game industry.

I thought it would be a good time to revisit this idea of relative valuation, or how much each company is worth relative to another one — and whether that makes any sense or not.

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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.