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ChangYou to invest a record-breaking $600M in mobile game developers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The publicly traded online game company ChangYou has launched one of the biggest development investment programs in gaming history. The company said today it will invest $600 million in mobile game developers in the coming years.

The company made the announcement in advance of the Game Developers Conference next week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Dubbed the CYOU Win Plan, the program is a way for the Chinese online game publisher to vault to the top of the mobile game charts, where increasing numbers of gamers are migrating — and billions of dollars are at stake.

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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.