N3twork co-founders Steve Detwiler, Alan Yu, Neil Young, and Bob Stevenson.
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Neil Young’s N3twork pivots from video social network to mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A couple of years ago, game creators Neil Young and Bob Stevenson launched N3twork, a new social network based on interests rather than friends. It hasn’t taken off like they expected, so they’re pivoting back into mobile gaming.

That’s an unusual move, in part because they’ll keep operating the social network on autopilot and use the same 10-person company to build mobile games. Young said it feels like coming home.

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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.