Gardens raised $31.3M for its fantasy action role-playing game.
Gardens raised $31.3M for its fantasy action role-playing game.
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Gardens raises $31.3M for fantasy action role-playing game

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Gardens, a new independent game studio, has raised $31.3 million in funding so it can make a fantasy action role-playing game.

That’s a lot of money for a company that got off the ground in the summer of 2021 and has only 12 people. But the investors were impressed with the playable demo that the team showed off in March at the Game Developers Conference, said Chris Bell, CEO of Gardens, in an interview with GamesBeat. He started the company with his brother Stephen Bell and CTO Lexie Dostal.

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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.