Typhoon and Google: (left to right) Jade Raymond, Alex Hutchinson, and Sebestien Puel.Reid Schneider
Typhoon and Google: (left to right) Jade Raymond, Alex Hutchinson, Sebestien Puel, and Reid Schneider
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Google buys triple-A game dev Typhoon Studio to beef up Stadia

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Google’s Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house. The move is part of Stadia’s plan to double down on internally produced talent to create exclusive content for the Stadia platform, which launched in November for early adopters.

Jade Raymond, the vice president of Stadia Games and Entertainment, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the goal of the team and Stadia’s first-party group is to create “platform-defining exclusive content.”

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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.