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Digital Bandidos wants to be an outlaw publisher that fights for devs | Steve Escalante

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Digital Bandidos formed last year as an indie game publishing company just as many publishers were going out of business.

Led by Steve Escalante and Lance James, the company has raised millions of dollars and is helping to fill the gap and provide funding for indie game developers. It’s not an easy task, considering 17,000 small games debut in a given year and game studios have been disappearing by the dozens.

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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.