Magic Soup Games is focused on triple-A gaming.
Magic Soup Games is focused on triple-A gaming.
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Magic Soup Games founders J. Allen Brack, Jen Oneal and John Donham answer our queries

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 11 min

It looks like there is life after Azeroth.

Ex-Blizzard veterans Jen Oneal, J. Allen Brack and John Donham have formed a new game studio dubbed Magic Soup Games. They spend a long time building big businesses at Activision Blizzard, but they left at a turbulent time after shakeups at the company as it saw lots of turnover in the wake of leadership changes and a harrowing sexual harassment lawsuit.

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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.