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TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
2020 highlights – Total investment and M&A activity across the video games industry tracked by the TGE Index through April-December 2020 reached USD$37.890bn from 406 disclosed transactions (501 total). Adding averaged publicly-available data for Q1 gives a full-year approximation of USD$40.572bn from 642 transactions. – The shift in consumer attention to gaming through the disruption of other forms of entertainment offered a previously-unrealised level of financial freedom to scaled public firms, leading to an eruption of acquisition activity, with M&A transactions totalling [...]
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Predictions 2021: VC Investment
In the second of TheGamingEconomy’s 2021 Predictions series, we take a look at some of the key statistics from the TGE Index on venture investment in gaming, and hear from Justin Keeling, General Partner of recently-launched Lumikai Fund, on what next year will bring for VC investment in gaming. VC Investment: April-December 2020 Many in the video games industry have believed for some time that the sector is under-explored by venture capital and private equity investors, heightening the tenacious and competitive environment [...]
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TGE Index New Additions Analysis - September 2020
In this monthly series, TheGamingEconomy takes an in-depth look at a sample of the 300 companies added to the TGE Index over the last month. In this edition: French development studio Dontnod Entertainment; AI voice assistant and marketing technology firm Fridai; and esports organisation FaZe Clan. Dontnod Entertainment The first of this month’s TGE Index intake to be featured is French studio Dontnod Entertainment, which specialises in the development of PC and console titles on a “AA” budget. The Parisian outfit was [...]
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TGE Index Investment Report - Q3 2020
Highlights – Total investment and M&A activity across the video games industry tracked by the TGE Index in July-September 2020 surpassed USD$17.54bn, representing an increase of 77.3% over the previous quarter. – Following a slow start to the period, investment activity proliferated through August and September. The USD$11.77bn worth of tracked funding in September alone outmatched the total transaction value recorded for the entirety of the last quarter (USD$9.883bn), supported largely by Microsoft’s USD$7.5bn acquisition of ZeniMax. – Both non-public investment and M&A [...]
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TGE Index Investment Spotlight - August 2020
TheGamingEconomy’s monthly spotlight of industry investments takes a closer look at a sample of video game transactions tracked by the TGE Index over the previous month. In the August 2020 edition: Wildlife Studio’s USD$120m (£91.8m) Series B round; Dynasty eSports’ SGD$3.1m (£1.7m) raise; and Playdots’ USD$192m (£147m) acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. Wildlife Studios Sao Paulo-based mobile developer-publisher Wildlife Studios announced on 17th August that it had raised USD$120m (£91.8m) in a Series B round led by New York investment unit Vulcan Capital, [...]
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TGE Index New Additions Analysis - August 2020
In this newly-launched series, TheGamingEconomy takes an in-depth look at a sample of the 300 companies added to the TGE Index over the last month. In this edition: video games investment vehicle Transcend Fund; African mobile developer-publisher Carry1st; and esports training platform Barracks. Transcend Fund Transcend Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in video game companies. The vehicle emerged from stealth in April this year with the announcement that it had raised USD$50m (£38m) to invest [...]
