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The scale of ambition for Saudi Arabia when it comes to moving into the games business and esports is well known. But trick is to come up with a strategy that makes investments pay off in a timely way.
One of the key leaders charged with executing on both the ambition and the investments is Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, a Riyadh-based holding group that owns ESL FaceIt Group, Scopely, Vindix and other properties. Through well-timed acquisitions, Ward has built the world’s largest esports company, the 11th-largest game publisher and added 3,800 employees in 22 countries.
And it’s not just about amassing a lot of properties with a lot of capital. Savvy Games Group happened to buy mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9 billion just a month before the launch of Monopoly Go, which generated $2 billion in revenues in its first 10 months on the market.
Ward did a fireside chat with Lisa Cosmas Hanson, president of market research firm Niko Partners, at our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event last week. Cosmas Hanson has provided market research on games for decades on markets like Asia and the Middle East.
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Ward has nearly 30 years of studio and operations experience, including senior positions at Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Activision Blizzard. He previously led worldwide studios at Activision and managed all the development at more than a dozen studio acquisitions.
They talked about Saudi Arabia’s ambition to offset the oil business by building a global hub for esports and gaming, as well as the construction of brand new cities such as the esports-focused Qiddiya and the sci-fi linear city dubbed The Line in Neom, Saudi Arabia. The kingdom recently announced the Esports World Cup will have a $60 million prize pool as it takes place in Riyadh …
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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.
The scale of ambition for Saudi Arabia when it comes to moving into the games business and esports is well known. But trick is to come up with a strategy that makes investments pay off in a timely way.
One of the key leaders charged with executing on both the ambition and the investments is Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Games Group, a Riyadh-based holding group that owns ESL FaceIt Group, Scopely, Vindix and other properties. Through well-timed acquisitions, Ward has built the world’s largest esports company, the 11th-largest game publisher and added 3,800 employees in 22 countries.
And it’s not just about amassing a lot of properties with a lot of capital. Savvy Games Group happened to buy mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9 billion just a month before the launch of Monopoly Go, which generated $2 billion in revenues in its first 10 months on the market.
Ward did a fireside chat with Lisa Cosmas Hanson, president of market research firm Niko Partners, at our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event last week. Cosmas Hanson has provided market research on games for decades on markets like Asia and the Middle East.
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Ward has nearly 30 years of studio and operations experience, including senior positions at Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Activision Blizzard. He previously led worldwide studios at Activision and managed all the development at more than a dozen studio acquisitions.
They talked about Saudi Arabia’s ambition to offset the oil business by building a global hub for esports and gaming, as well as the construction of brand new cities such as the esports-focused Qiddiya and the sci-fi linear city dubbed The Line in Neom, Saudi Arabia. The kingdom recently announced the Esports World Cup will have a $60 million prize pool as it takes place in Riyadh …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]