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Andreessen Horowitz invests $20M in startup Improbable to build massive simulated game worlds

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested $20 million in U.K. startup Improbable so that it can make vast, simulated game worlds that live up to the dreams of every gamer.

London-based Improbable is creating an operating environment that makes fully simulated, real-time worlds possible. And if Improbable can deliver, more than just game companies will be interested in building gigantic simulations with its technology.

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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.