Half-Time Report: 2024’s Winners & Losers
Reading Time: 13 minutes In today’s issue, we break down the winners and losers of 2024 so far, talk web3 innovation with Mirai Labs in our podcast, and round up the best content of the week.
Alexis Bonte: Stillfront’s Strategy, Synergies & Future
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this episode, Alexis Bonte – COO of Stillfront Group – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss: His journey as an entrepreneur and executive, and how he ended up at Stillfront. How Stillfront operates, including how it provides autonomy to studios while still creating synergies across the entire organization. Also the Stillfront’s M&A strategy, including lessons learned after 18 acquisitions and the future of Stillfront (and whether Stillfront is thinking about web3).
Looking Back at Stillfront
Reading Time: 10 minutes
In this issue, we revisit our old piece on Stillfront with some updated learnings. We also preview InvestGames’ retrospective on a monumental industry quarter and our game deconstruction of Everdale.
How Xbox is Building its Gaming Universe
Reading Time: 14 minutes
The Weekly Meta #71
Supercell’s Decline and Stillfront’s Rise
Reading Time: 12 minutes
The Weekly Meta #55
Stillfront: Understanding Gaming’s Dark Horse
Reading Time: 24 minutes Welcome to Master the Meta, the #1 newsletter analysing the business strategy of the gaming industry. This company deep dive is a collaboration between Aaron Bush and Abhimanyu Kumar from Master the Meta, a newsletter analysing the business strategy of the gaming industry, and Joakim Achren from Elite Game Developers, an online resource that helps…
PS5 Updates, Apple One, and Stillfront’s New Acquisition
Reading Time: 9 minutes
The Weekly Meta #36
How Gaming’s Most Underrated Acquirer Struck Another Incredible Deal
Reading Time: 7 minutes Sep 20View fullsize On September 17th, Stillfront Group announced its acquisition of Nanobit, thereby making the company now 15 studios strong! More notably, this is Stillfront’s 3rd acquisition already in 2020 — Storm8 (January 2020) and Candywriter (April 2020) — resulting in a very impressive rate of one acquisition per quarter. If that doesn’t awe…
