The founders of Global Gaming League.
The founders of Global Gaming League. Clinton Sparks is in center.
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Global Gaming League raises $10M round for celebrity-endorsed gaming tournaments

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Global Gaming League (GGL), a global gaming entertainment and media company, has raised $10 million to kick off its gaming battles among celebrity-owned teams.

GGL was founded by Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum music producer and entrepreneur Clinton Sparks, in partnership with music icon T-Pain and tech entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman (Priceline, UBid, Booking.com). In his music career, Sparks produced records that sold more than 80 million copies.

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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.