Hypersonic Laboratories is making Helix, a world for modders to make their own.
Hypersonic Laboratories is making Helix, a world for modders to make their own.
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Hypersonic Laboratories raises $7M for sandbox UGC gaming platform

Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in funding for a multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC).

The company is building Helix, a platform that will enable “modders,” or creators building game content, to create their own games inside a virtual world.

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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.