Animoca Brands' Garfield app.
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Mobile game maker Animoca Brands goes public in Australia (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Update 2:11:05 pm 1/23/15: The company has now officiallly gone public.

Update 12:41 a.m. Pacific: The listing is still pending. As the transaction hasn’t happened, we’ve taken down the story.

Animoca Brands, maker of mobile games such as one based on the Garfield cartoons, has gone public on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

 

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.