Game investments and M&A totaled $17.5B across 985 deals in 2024

Digital Development Management (DDM) has claimed that the games sector moved on from the “survive till 25” mentality in 2024, as investment and M&A data revealed a recovery and improvement in the market.
When comparing Q4 2023 to the same period in 2024, the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn must be excluded as an outlier, as it was 5.4 times larger than the next largest gaming acquisition to date.
Nevertheless, DDM noted that Q4 2024 did see a regression in investment values, with $906 min v es t e d a cross 201 in v es t m e n t s, a 35$ 1.4bn invested across 193 investments.
As for M&As, Q4 2024 deals totalled $5 bna cross 35 t r an s a c t i o n s, a + 566$ 751m across 50 transactions.
Investments in 2024 were up by 68% in value and 18% in volume, while M&As increased by 22% in value and 10% in volume, year on year.

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