DDM Games Investment Review Q1 Report

DDM Games Investment Review
DDM acquired Digi-Capital’s ten-year-old games intelligence business in Q1 2020, and it now powers the DDM Games Investment Review used by our Industry Guidance and Finance Services clients to evaluate their acquisition, investment and exit opportunities.

We are happy to announce the DDM Games Investment Review website is now live! Please visit to see highlights of the types of reporting available as well as details on the quarterly report provided as Digi-Capital did before us. Now that the handover is completed and the website is live, our next step is to evaluate new ways in which we will make the data available.

We have also released our Q1 2020 report. 2020 is off to a slower start, with over $875 million of funding across more than 60 investments tracked. This is the second lowest quarter of investment funding in the last two years. Historically, we have observed a three-year cycle for IPOs where one large year is followed by two smaller years. This year would traditionally be the start of a new cycle, but it was a slow quarter as we tracked only one games company IPO. Over 35 M&A deals happened in the first quarter. Of the publicly disclosed deals, Embracer Group’s acquisition of Saber Interactive at $525 million and Stillfront Group’s acquisition of Storm8 at $400 million were the stand-out transactions of the quarter. For more details on ten years’ investment/M&A transactions, including Q1 2020 as well as our market forecasts for PC, console, mobile, AR/VR and eSports and more, we offer a standalone report of the Games Investment Review for purchase at our newly launched www.DDMGamesInvestmentReview.com.