Part of the My.Games team.
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How Alex Chachava extracted Warface maker My.Games from Russia and what’s next

Alex Chachava pulled off a difficult extraction last fall when he acquired much of My.Games and moved the company’s operations out of Russia because of the geopolitics around the Ukraine war.

Back in September 2022, VK announced it sold all of My.Games to Chachava, managing partner of LETA Capital, for $642 million. By December, My.Games set up its headquarters in Amsterdam and established offices in Cyprus, Korea, Spain, China and Finland. Now Chachava is the “chief alchemist” and owner of My.Games and he is making moves to re-establish the big game publisher outside of Russia.

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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.