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Elbow Grease Games runs prototype mixer for its first accelerator class

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Elbow Grease Games (EGG) has completed its first ever EGG Prototype Mixer with 10 game startups presenting to a crowd of game investors and publishers during the Game Developers Conference. Among the surprises: a new experience coming from sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson.

Started by John Graham, the founder of Humble Bundle, EGG is a Y Combinator-style accelerator for funding game prototypes. The game startups are part of its inaugural portfolio of game companies. (You can read EGG’s story here).

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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.