deep reservoirs of capital have also to name two examples, are requiring allowed them to make the biggest many studios and publishers to bets in gaming, which has inevitably transform their governance and attracted regulatory scrutiny, user protection processes. particularly around merger Laws are also being introduced to control and antitrust laws. govern the use of dark patterns and Many governments are also subscription models, again requiring introducing laws to require even significant evolution in some business low-value M&A to be subject to models. Several jurisdictions are clearance requirements where assessing how their legal frameworks there may be a national security need to be updated to account for impact, with the net cast extremely generative AI, with widely differing widely (in the UK covering 17 sectors, approaches so far being taken including AI, and catching even across major jurisdictions. group reorganisations). It is certainly a time of challenge - Another area of regulatory focus but also massive opportunity - the is the protection of consumers, next few years will see a great deal particularly children, from online of change in the sector. harms. The UK’s Online Safety Act, and the EU’s Digital Services Act, 6