Videogame companies with a worldwide reach, such as Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts or Ubisoft have demonstrated an ability to respond to changing player interests and social network developments like e-sports. Technological advances in network access have been key drivers for multiplayer online games and mobile connectivity has opened new venues of development
Because creative impulse, closely integrated with technological evolution, is critical to success, competition in the videogame space is unrelenting with renewed successes of companies such as South Korean Gravity or Japanese Bandai Namco or Konami
The fact that game companies integrated by majors have been on the whole less successful may well explain the absence of takeover bids – the future will tell…
