Halcyon Zero is an anime-inspired RPG coming from Pahdo Labs.
Halcyon Zero is an anime-inspired RPG coming from Pahdo Labs.
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Pahdo Labs raises $15M for anime-inspired game world and UGC platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pahdo Labs has raised $15 million in funding for the startup’s plans to create an anime-style role-playing game and user-generated content (UGC) platform.

Pahdo Labs aims to revolutionize the anime RPG genre by empowering players to build their own virtual worlds with the aid of AI tools and procedural generation, said founder Daniel Zou, in an 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.