Smilegate's That's No Moon Entertainment team.
Smilegate's That's No Moon Entertainment team.
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Smilegate invests $100M in That’s No Moon Entertainment with ex-Sony, Naughty Dog, and Activision devs

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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That’s No Moon Entertainment is a new triple-A game development studio with veterans who have attracted more than $100 million in investment from CrossFire creator Smilegate.

The team includes developers such as Taylor Kurosaki, a former studio narrative director at Infinity Ward and a former narrative design lead at Naughty Dog. He will serve as creative director alongside game director Jacob Minkoff, a former design director of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at Infinity Ward and lead game designer on The Last of Us at Naughty Dog.

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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.