Sky can fit 4,000 people in a stadium for a virtual concert.
Sky can fit 4,000 people in a stadium for a virtual concert.
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How 1.6M people watched a concert in Sky: Children of the Light | Jenova Chen interview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Earlier this year, Thatgamecompany announced it had more than 160 million people who downloaded Sky: Children of the Light, since the mobile game launched in 2019. And now the company has figured out a way to keep those players coming back through a virtual concert with the artist Aurora.

The title was an open world social indie adventure game, where players could have a cool experience in a beautiful world and share the emotional experience with friends. That enabled the company to raise $160 million in March 2022. During The Game Awards on December 8, the company showed off something new.

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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.