Mighty No. 9
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DDM talent agency pulls strings to make Mighty No. 9’s crowdfunding a success

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Keiji Inafune, the creator of the Mega Man video game series, blew past his goal of $900,000 for a new game dubbed Mighty No. 9, raising $2.4 million in a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. How that happened reveals an interesting glimpse at the new role of talent agents in the game industry.

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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.