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How Iron Galaxy is expanding both work- for-hire and original titles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Last week, Iron Galaxy Studios announced that it would open a new game studio in Nashville, Tennessee. You can chalk that up to the boom in gaming during the pandemic as well as the company’s own good fortunes in the work-for-hire and original games business.

Iron Galaxy will invest more than $950,000 to set up the office and hire more than 100 people for the Nashville studio, which is the third such studio for the company which also has offices in Chicago and Orlando. I caught up with the leaders of Iron Galaxy — founder Dave Lang, and co-CEOS Chelsea Blasko and Adam Boyes — to talk about the expansion. We met during the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.

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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.