Gaming, E-Sports & Live Entertainment

Saudi Arabia has put $38 billion on gaming. The sector is reshaping faster than most strategy work is keeping up.

Dilogic is the Strategic Principal for studios, esports organizations, and gaming-adjacent brands. We hold the Savvy Games deployment, the Riyadh Season effect, and the global LiveOps reset at the same table.

The Savvy Games inflection

The capital is moving. The pattern recognition for what wins inside that capital flow is not yet widely held.

The Savvy Games Group has committed $38B of deployment across studios, IP, esports, and infrastructure. That capital is moving fast. Studios outside Saudi are scrambling to position. Studios inside are figuring out how to absorb growth without losing the operating discipline that made them attractive in the first place.

On top of the capital story, the sector economics are shifting structurally. LiveOps post-pandemic settled into a different curve. Esports organizations are re-modeling how they monetize attention. Gaming-adjacent brands (consumer, retail, mobility) are figuring out where to plug in.

Dilogic holds all three threads — capital deployment, sector economics, and brand integration — at the same strategy table. Then directs execution against the operating thesis we agreed.

Three commitments — sector-aware

What we sign up to inside gaming and live entertainment engagements.

01

We own the bigger picture.

We do not deliver a strategy and leave. We hold the operating thesis across the engagement. The map you have at the end is the map we wrote together — updated by the work, not by a refresh deck.

02

We direct the people who deliver.

Agencies, vendors, internal teams, contractors. Whoever is in the room executing, we direct against the strategy. That includes naming the work, sequencing it, holding it accountable, and replacing what is not working. Direction is not a workshop. It is daily.

03

We are accountable to the outcome.

Engagements are scoped to outcomes, not deliverables. We stay in the room until the outcome lands. If it does not, we say why. Reporting is what happened against what we said would happen — not what is convenient to present.

Why Dilogic for gaming

Where we sit, and where the alternatives stop.

Generalist global consultancies

What they offer

Sector-adjacent transformation programs, market sizing

What they get wrong

Months behind on Savvy Games, Riyadh Season, LiveOps economics. Junior-staffed at delivery.

What Dilogic does

Senior partner with operating record across the inflection. Cross-client pattern across studios, esports orgs, and adjacent brands.

Gaming and esports agencies / talent shops

What they offer

Sponsorship strategy bundled with talent representation and event execution

What they get wrong

Strategy is a wedge for sponsorship inventory. Conflicted incentives.

What Dilogic does

Independent. Briefs sponsorship sellers from outside instead of selling inventory ourselves.

FAQ

  • No. Our concentration is commercial — GTM, brand, partnerships, audience strategy, sector positioning, and the operating discipline behind LiveOps revenue. Game design, art direction, and studio production are outside our practice.

  • Yes. Esports orgs are part of the practice. The commercial questions (sponsorship monetization, audience strategy, regional expansion, talent economics) are a clean fit with how we work.

Talk to the gaming practice partner.

Engagements in gaming begin with a partner-led conversation. Routed to gaming@dilogicgroup.com.