Industry veteran David Reid unveils MetaArcade Adventures platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2016
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

David Reid has spent a lot of time doing marketing at companies such as Microsoft’s Xbox division, CCP, and Trion Worlds. But now he’s going solo and revealing his new company as MetaArcade, a platform for self-publishing story-based adventure games, GamesBeat has learned.

Reid’s MetaArcade is creating a self-publishing platform for narrative-based adventure games. And its first title will be a digital remastering of the classic tabletop role-playing game Tunnels & Trolls. Reid wants to publish that first title later this year on iOS, Android, PC, and Mac.

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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.