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‘Hunger Games’ movie studio Lionsgate invests in Telltale Games

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Hollywood and gaming are friends again.

“The Hunger Games” movie studio Lionsgate has invested in story-based game publisher Telltale Games. The San Rafael, Calif.-based Telltale makes episodic games, or stories that play out one episode at a time, like television shows. It has won acclaim for dramatic tales based on The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones television shows.

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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.