Gaming Market levels Up
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Microsoft’s audacious $69 billion move on games publisher Activision Blizzard has detonated a bomb under the games industry.
Along with the proposed deal’s sheer size, the prospect of a tech giant worth more than $US2 trillion making a grab for games industry leadership has prompted breathless speculation about whether it will precipitate wider industry realignment.
Games like Activision’s “Call of Duty” now attract hundreds of millions of players between them.
To talk about what this means for the gaming industry and the future of the market in Africa Michael Avery is joined by Petri Redelinghuys, Founder of Herenya Capital; Jay Shapiro CEO of Usiku Games, building a Gaming For Good movement across Africa & Seleho Tsatsi, Co-manager of Anchor Global Technology Fund
Along with the proposed deal’s sheer size, the prospect of a tech giant worth more than $US2 trillion making a grab for games industry leadership has prompted breathless speculation about whether it will precipitate wider industry realignment.
Games like Activision’s “Call of Duty” now attract hundreds of millions of players between them.
To talk about what this means for the gaming industry and the future of the market in Africa Michael Avery is joined by Petri Redelinghuys, Founder of Herenya Capital; Jay Shapiro CEO of Usiku Games, building a Gaming For Good movement across Africa & Seleho Tsatsi, Co-manager of Anchor Global Technology Fund
