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Roundtable #30 - Take Two buys Zynga & The Roblox Controversy

Roundtable #30 - Take Two buys Zynga & The Roblox Controversy

Naavik Gaming Podcast

January 14, 20221h 6m

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Show Notes

In this Metacast episode, Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Devin Becker and Abhimanyu Kumar join your host Nicolas Vereecke to discuss -

 

#1: Take-Two buys Zynga for $12.7B

For context, here is the press release.

 

#2: Is Roblox Exploiting Young Game Developers?

We discuss the first and second videos released by People Make Games. 



And as this week’s bonus segment, we are making bold predictions about M&A in 2022.

Other key links referenced in the discussion:

  • EA buys Glu - Link
  • GTA Online recurring revenue - Link 
  • Zynga's experience porting IP to mobile - Link
  • Max Payne Mobile (I don't think Manyu knew!) - Apple & Google
  • Take-Two's purchase of SocialPoint - Link
  • Supersocial (gotta plug Yon!) - Link
  • CORE - Link
  • Robux DevEx FAQ - Link

 


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