Bad Yolk is a new game studio in Uppsala, Sweden.
Bad Yolk is a new game studio in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Bad Yolk opens studio in Sweden with former Machine Games developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Bad Yolk is the name of a new game studio in Sweden, started by former Machine Games developers Michael Paixao and Joel Jonsson.

The studio in Uppsala, Sweden, will focus on attracting the best talent by offering a “healthy and happy work-life balance” so the team can make the “greatest, most creative, and technically superior games possible.”

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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.