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Goodgame Studios quietly becomes one of Germany’s biggest game companies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chances are you haven’t heard of Goodgame Studios. But the game studio in Hamburg has become one of Germany’s biggest game companies, with more than €202 million, or $220 million, in revenues 2014. The company has more than 245 million users for its online and mobile games like Goodgame Empire. It closed 2014 with 1,168 employees, up 92 percent from a year earlier, and now its numbers are past 1,200.

Now the company hopes to become a bigger player on the global stage of the free-to-play mobile gaming business.

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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.