Hydratec has raised $3 million to make new shooter game.
Hydratec has raised $3 million to make new shooter game.
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Hydratac raises $3M for ‘extremely realistic’ shooter game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Hydratac is a small company with just seven people working on a next-generation “extremely realistic” shooter game, and it has raised $3 million.

The company is run by former venture capitalist Louis Gresham and supported by former Treyarch studio co-head Dan Bunting, who is a Hydratac board member. They have essentially switched roles in the process of bringing this studio to life.

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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.