Clockwise from top right: Jace Hall, chief creative officer; Rick Fox, chief business development officer; Anthony Castoro, CEO; and David Washington, chief impact officer.
Clockwise from top right: Jace Hall, chief creative officer; Rick Fox, chief business development officer; Anthony Castoro, CEO; and David Washington, chief impact officer.
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HiDef rounds up game leaders with $9M to make metaverse game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A team of industry veterans has united to create HiDef, a new game studio in San Diego, California, with $9 million in funding to build a metaverse game.

The company is making a “genre-defining game” for the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. The goal is to make interactive experiences that transcend traditional gaming boundaries and demographics.

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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.