GamesBeat panel spotlight: Making the next billion-dollar game in Asia

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 24, 2013
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Asian game companies are heating up the market. There are 30 companies in Asia with more than $1 billion in cash with a history of buying game companies, according to the Corum Group. They want to find the next hot game in their region, and it just might come from the West.

We’re lucky enough to assemble a panel of key companies from Japan, China, and South Korea offering their observations about creating the next big game. Western developers can learn how to partner with key local players in Asia.

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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.