Brian Reynolds revives Big Huge Games and unveils first mobile strategy title: DomiNations

Industry veterans Brian Reynolds and Tim Train have teamed up again at a game studio. The company, formerly known as SecretNewCo, has a new, yet recognizable, name to hardcore strategy fans: Big Huge Games. The venture’s first game is DomiNations, and it will take on mobile market leader Clash of Clans.

With financing and guidance from Asian game giant Nexon, Baltimore-based Big Huge Games is making a free-to-play combat-strategy game for mobile that covers the “sweep of human history,” said Reynolds in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.