Archive - Business of Games

Made my day moment, part no CRM tracks

Customer-centric relationships mementos 456#

Aug 18 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Fact: $230M+ moved in gaming last week and almost none of it was fresh venture

Snapshot of last week's M&A, UA financing, and studio launches in gaming. 455#

Aug 17 • Cartic P, @iCartic

1 take-private, 1 delisting proposal, $119M+ moved in gaming last week

Snapshot of last week's take-privates, QA consolidation, and studio raises in gaming. 454#

Aug 10 • Cartic P, @iCartic

What dominated global charts in July26?

Top Games of July 2026, Downloads vs. Revenue. 453#

Aug 6 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Fact: $55B of gaming M&A closes tomo. The week's only disclosed equity round into a games company was $3.2M

Snapshot of last week's take-privates, tooling raises and first-time funds in gaming. 452#

Aug 3 • Cartic P, @iCartic

July 2026

Fact: Tech art means Blender +Unreal. EA just posted a JD that says ComfyUI+Governance too

Figuring out what to learn next, read this JD 451#

Jul 31 • Cartic P, @iCartic

1:36

Fact: $422M moved through gaming last week.

$1.5M of it went to a studio actually building a game. 450#

Jul 27 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Keynote from SRMIST session: Indie Game Development in India: Lessons & Postmortems

Keynote from the Industry Session #4 at Geek n Jam 2026 I ran last week, #449

Jul 27 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Did India had paying players or we paid the players. RMG side effect 💊

what motivates the player when its not pay, 448#

Jul 22 • Cartic P, @iCartic

1:35

$594M in gaming deal value last week. Only $1M was fresh capital into a studio

Snapshot of last week's funding, indie fund launches, and IP moves in gaming. 447#

Jul 20 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Indie devs under $1M, are you tipping Apple extra 15%?

reminder drop on AppStore Small Business Program, 446$

Jul 16 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Fact: $82M+ in gaming capital last week. Only $8.75M of it went into gamedev

Snapshot of last week's funding, indie fund launches, and IP moves in gaming. 445#

Jul 13 • Cartic P, @iCartic

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