The Virtuos office in Chengdu, China.
The Virtuos office in Chengdu, China.
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How Virtuos continues to open new service game studios | Philippe Angely interview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Somebody needs to keep the faith by creating new jobs in the game industry in the emerging regions of the world.

Virtuos has carved out a big business since 2004 as a company that handles external game development for both developers and publishers. And this week, the company added to its staff of more than 3,500 people around the world. The firm continues to open new game studios that service other developers.

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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.