Gumi CEO believes VR and blockchain are key to connected worlds

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 5, 2019
Updated June 18, 2025
15 min

Gumi has always been partial to new technology. Founded in 2007, the Japanese game publisher had one of the big hits of the smartphone era with Brave Frontier in 2012. The company went public in 2014, and now it has 865 employees.

The company has moved into new markets through its affiliate companies. Yomuneco recently launched Swords of Gargantua, a swordfighting virtual reality game. It also created My Crypto Heroes, one of the top blockchain games in the world. And it has created the $30 million Gumi Cryptos fund to invest in blockchain games. These moves are consistent with the company’s belief that new technology paves the way for new forms of entertainment.

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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.