The insane deals of Q1 2021.
The insane deals of Q1 2021.
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The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions blast off in Q1 2021 with 280 deals worth $39 billion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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If you felt like deal-making fever came to the game industry in the past quarter, you were on the mark. The first quarter’s $39 billion value of 280 announced transactions was higher than $33 billion reported for all the 664 deals of 2020, according to InvestGame.

By almost every measure — private investments, public offerings, and acquisitions — the Q1 game industry doubled the growth compared to the first two quarters of last year, according to game finance web site InvestGame, which investment specialists Sergei Evdokimov and Anton Gorodetsky founded in 2019.

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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.