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NetEase invests in Detroit: Become Human game studio Quantic Dream

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Chinese internet company NetEase Games has acquired a minority stake in Quantic Dream, the French game studio that created blockbuster games such as Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain.

The investment will shore up Quantic Dream‘s capability to produce interactive storytelling games like Detroit: Become Human, a parable of modern society’s disturbing obsession with making human-like artificial intelligent androids. That game was a PlayStation 4 exclusive that sold more than 3 million copies. But under the deal with NetEase, Quantic Dream will now make games for other platforms too, said David Cage, the cofounder of Quantic Dream, in an exclusive email interview with GamesBeat.

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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.