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FunPlus invests in Hover Junkers creator Stress Level Zero

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chinese game publisher FunPlus has invested an undisclosed amount of money into Stress Level Zero, the maker of the Hover Junkers virtual reality game.

The move underscores the excitement around VR games, which along with augmented reality games could become a $10 billion market by the year 2020, according to tech adviser Digi-Capital. Stress Level Zero is a Los Angeles game studio created by Brandon Laatsch, who was previously a YouTube star who worked with Video Game High School creator Freddie Wong.

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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.