As money continues to flow into the metaverse, the gaming industry seems to be front and center, Tencent’s Ben Feder tells Axios.

Why it matters: As with the metaverse, gaming has been a hotbed of trading activity, punctuated by Microsoft’s $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard.

• Feder, who served as Tencent’s president of international partnerships in the US, is leaving to start his own investment firm called Tirta, focused on the intersection of gaming and the metaverse.
• Feder is also a former CEO of Take-Two Interactive.

Why start this firm? What do you see as the opportunity in this?

All the buzzwords that people hear about information technology, whether it’s web3, metaverse or things like that, games are really the starting point for everything.

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