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Improbable gets $50 million from China’s NetEase to engineer giant game worlds

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese game giant NetEase as part of a strategic partnership to enable more games with massive worlds.

Improbable already raised eyebrows when it raised $502 million in May 2017 from SoftBank. NetEase is taking a “small equity stake” and will develop and publish games using SpatialOS, Improbable’s cloud-based development technology.

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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.