Manuel Figeac (left) and Tom Nichols of Aeria Games in Berlin.
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Berlin’s Aeria Games specializes in taking Asian games to the West

You may not have heard of Aeria Games, but it has grown into a 300-person mobile and online game publisher in Berlin based on a single model: It takes popular games in Asia and publishes them in the West.

Aeria Games has done this for seven years now, and the strategy has enabled it to grow when many game companies have had a tough time.

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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.