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Nine Dots launches 3rd-party publishing with friendly terms

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Nine Dots is bucking the gloomy trend in gaming by expanding from its role as a developer to publishing third-party games as well.

Game publishers shut down by the dozens in 2023. But it’s refreshing to see Nine Dots go in the opposite direction in starting up a new third-party publisher.

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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.