Reine Abbas, cofounder of Wixel Studios in Lebanon.
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Lebanon’s Wixel Studios expands from Middle East drama to games that fight kids’ cancer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Beiruit-based Wixel Studios is one of the only established game studios in Lebanon, and its story is an inspiring one. Reine Abbas co-founded Wixel Studios with Ziad Feghali and Karim Abi Saleh in Kaslik, Lebanon, in 2008. Their newest project is Aurora, a charitable platform for mobile games that help kids fight cancer. It is one of many games that the company has made in the name of doing good and inspiring change in the world.

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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.