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Finland's Star Arcade completes a management buyout with help from Gameforge founder (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Another game studio from the land of mobile gaming hits like Clash of Clans and Angry Birds is making news.

Star Arcade of Helsinki is announcing today that its management team has acquired a majority stake in the company and raised new investment from serial game entrepreneur Klaas Kersting.

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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.