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Acclaim cofounder Gregory Fischbach starts publisher Accelerate Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Greg Fischbach is back in the game with the unveiling of new game publisher Accelerate Games. The startup is the first game enterprise in a while for Fischbach, who started video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment in 1987.

Fischbach’s former company published games such as the controversial Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, but it folded in 2004. Now Fischbach hopes to take advantage of his relationships with game creators and start a new publisher to cultivate “brands and build lasting intellectual properties,” Fischbach said in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.