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Carbonated raises $8.5 million for squad-based mobile shooter

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Carbonated has raised $8.5 million for its mobile game studio. It’s building a squad-based shooter that taps artificial intelligence as a core feature. The company has thought not only about incorporating AI into making mobile gaming easier, but to update these apps even with a small team.

Lots of other studios are doing this, like the TiMi3 studio in China that made Activision’s Call of Duty: Mobile game. But Carbonated has a veteran crew and it has seasoned game investors as well. Andreessen Horowitz, Golden Ventures, and Bitkraft Ventures were among the investors in the round for the El Segundo, California-based game studio.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.