Panelists (starting top left and clockwise) Phil Sanderson, Eric Goldberg, Rick Yang, and Michael Cheung.

Big game investment outlook is mixed as demand and fear rise

The outlook for big game investments is mixed, as both demand and fear are rising. That’s one of the observations from a panel of Series A and Series B round (larger institutional investment rounds) investors at our GamesBeat Summit 2020 event.

The panel included Phil Sanderson of Griffin Gaming Partners, Michael Cheung of Makers Fund, Rick Yang of New Enterprise Associates, and moderator Eric Goldberg of Crossover Technologies. Game investments and acquisitions have been going strong, at least in the first quarter, according to data collected by Sergei Evdokimov, an investment associate at Mail.ru Games Ventures.

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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.