A knight created with Silicon Studio's Xenko game engine.
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Bravely Default developer Silicon Studio moves into game engines with open-source Xenko platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Japanese game maker Silicon Studio, the maker of the Nintendo’s hit 3DS series Bravely Default, is moving into the game engine business with the release of its Xenko Game Engine.

Game engines are a kind of strategically important middleware, as this enable developers to get their work done more quickly and take it to more game platforms. That lessens their dependence on any single platform. And the new engine also gives Silicon Studio a new revenue stream beyond games.

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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.