Archive - Business of Games

Gaming deals this week: Tencent, Kingnet and Lilith buying out, Scopely buying in

Everyone's tracking Western gaming M&A, this week China ran both sides of the deals 462#

18 hrs ago • Cartic P, @iCartic

Gaming deals: 7 studios changed hands in 2 weeks.

Snapshot of the last two weeks in gaming: M&A, hardware, and a Gulf cash crunch. 461#

Sep 21 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Game industry funds: A 3D AI raised more than every gaming deal of the week combined!

Snapshot of last week's asset-layer capital, UA financing, and M&A in gaming. 460#

Sep 7 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Business of Games: Unicorn is a vanity metric

Gaming industry fund stats, 459#

Sep 4 • Cartic P, @iCartic

Floor Notes from my Gamescom 2026

48 meets, 5 mixers, and 1 date that every release plan is now routing around. 458#

Sep 2 • Cartic P, @iCartic

August 2026

Fact: $2.4B+ of gaming deal value, funds and financing surfaced across the last 2 weeks

Snapshot of last TWO weeks of M&A, Venture Funding, UA financing, and studio launches in gaming 457#

Aug 31 • Cartic P, @iCartic

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

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