Online gaming giant Nexon invests in ex-Call of Duty creative strategist’s Robotoki game startup

Robotoki's Human Element will be a cross-platform title arriving in 2015.

The DeanBeat: After Zynga’s crash, game investments dive 42 percent in 2012

Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.

Game talent agency DDM teams up with Seahorn Capital Group to finance development studios

Digital Development Management is a talent agency for video games and digital entertainment, and it’s teaming up with investment firm Seahorn Capital Group to finance game startups and interactive media. The new joint venture is Seahorn Investments.

Northampton, Mass.-based DDM, …

Investors weigh in on falling game-startup valuations

Developer Zynga's collapse has taken its toll on game-company valuations. The topic came up at the recent investor panel at the YetiZen game accelerator.

Game acquisitions heated up in the second quarter while investments slowed

Game industry acquisitions grew dramatically in the second quarter, putting 2012 on track to break records for game M&A deals, according to investment bank Digi-Capital. But investment into new game startups slowed somewhat in the first half of the year.…

First quarter game investments and acquisitions gather steam

The consolidation of companies in the social game market has begun, according to first-quarter data gathered by game-focused investment bank Digi-Capital. In the first quarter of 2012, 30 merger and acquisition deals generated $1.7 billion in transaction value at an …

GamesBeat 2011: Game acquisitions and investments are accelerating

Video game investment and acquisitions accelerated in the most recent quarter, according to investment firm Digi-Capital.

Tim Merel, managing director of Digi-Capital in London, said that the interesting trends emerging this year show that acquisitions of massively multiplayer online game …