Humble Bundle has created a $1 million fund for black game developers.
Humble Bundle has created a $1 million fund for black game developers.
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Humble Bundle’s Black Game Developer Fund makes first 5 investments

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Humble Bundle has awarded its first five grants from its $1 million Black Game Developer Fund to Black-led game studios.

Those five studios will share a total of $200,000 in startup funds to create playable builds for their games. The fund’s goal is to help Black game makers realize their creative visions and to elevate diverse voices in the game industry.

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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.