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Inside creator Dino Patti sells stake in Jumpship to China’s NetEase

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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NetEase has acquired a minority stake in the independent game studio Jumpship, which was started by game maker Dino Patti and film animator Chris Olsen.

Patti is the former CEO of Playdead, creator of the hit games Limbo and Inside. Jumpship hasn’t revealed much about Somerville, its game, except through the two trailers embedded in this story. But apparently that and Patti’s track record with his previous games were enough to convince China’s NetEase to come on board with an investment.

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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.