Amber has 280 people on its game development staff.
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Ex-Samsung exec Mihai Pohontu takes CEO job at Romania’s Amber game studio

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In four year’s, Romanian game development services firm Amber has grown to 280 employees. And today, the Bucharest company is naming Romanian native Mihai Pohontu, former executive at Samsung’s emerging technologies division, as its new CEO.

Always a strong source of computer programmers, Romania has turned into a haven for game companies looking for developers in the last 20 years. All told, the country has more than 4,000 game developers, said Pohontu, in an interview with GamesBeat. It’s further proof that games can be made anywhere in the world.

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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.