Matt Marshall and Gabe Leydon of MZ at Mobile Summit.
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CEO Gabe Leydon on why Machine Zone renamed itself and launched its real-time cloud platform

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Gabe Leydon, the chief executive of Machine Zone, made some news this week as he renamed his company MZ and announced he would license its core infrastructure for running mobile games.

In a new strategy, MZ is licensing its RTplatform, a platform that can enable many millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. MZ built the platform for its Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike games, but now Leydon wants to use the technology to enable the “many-to-many internet,” where millions of people connect with each other in billions of interactions. The RTplatform can help customers scale up to handle enormous amounts of communication.

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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.